Armenti Quotes & Sayings

Two heads are better than one. — John Heywood

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. — Joyce Carol Oates

When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. — William Shakespeare

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey. — Ahmet Ertegun

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness. — Helen Keller

I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape. — Barack Obama

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop. — Ruth St. Denis

The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own. — William Rawle

Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. — Sean Platt

Hitler is all the war-lords and witch-doctors in history rolled into one. Therefore, argues Wells, he is an absurdity, a ghost from the past, a creature doomed to disappear almost immediately. But unfortunately the equation of science with common sense does not really hold good. The aeroplane, which was looked forward to as a civilising influence but in practice has hardly been used except for dropping bombs, is the symbol of that fact. Modern Germany is far more scientific than England, and far more barbarous. Much of what Wells has imagined and worked for is physically there in Nazi Germany. The order, the planning, the State encouragement of science, the steel, the concrete, the aeroplanes, are all there, but all in the service of ideas appropriate to the Stone Age. — George Orwell

Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them. — Mark Twain

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human. — Laurell K. Hamilton