Ami Quotes

Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there. ~ Louise Penny

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath. ~ Ami Bera

I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches - or are you doing so now?'
Poirot winced. His moustaches had always been his sensitive point. He was inordinately proud of them. My words touched him on the raw.
'No, no, indeed, mon ami. That day, I pray the good God, is still far off. The false moustaches! Quelle Horreur!'
He tugged at them vigorously to assure me of their genuine character.
'Well, they are very luxuriant still,' I said.
'N'est-ce pas? Never, in the whole of London, have I seen a pair of moustaches to equal mine.'
A good job too, I thought privately. ~ Agatha Christie

Cher Marcel,
Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should go to French lessons, so he will no longer be going to go see you on Sundays like he used to. I want to thank you very much for everything you have taught Oskar, particularly the conditional tense, which is weird. Obviously, there's no need to call me when Oskar doesn't come to his lessons, because I already know, because this was my decision. Also, I will keep sending you checks, because you are a nice guy.
Votre ami dévouée,
Mademoiselle Schell. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it. ~ Ami McKay

No matter what you do - somebody, somewheres, knew that you would. ~ Ami McKay

The only one who understands me, My Lord, my heart. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

I finally see myself the way I'm supposed to be-my inside self matched up with my outside self. And now, everyone else will finally see it, too. ~ Ami Polonsky

a picture is worth a thousand words. ~ Belle Ami

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.] ~ Jean De La Fontaine

You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel. ~ Ami Ayalon

If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed. ~ Belle Ami

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America. ~ Ami Bera

Touche, mon ami. Too fugging shay. ~ John Green

American girls never whimper. ~ Ami McKay

A girl should command attention, not suffer it. ~ Ami McKay

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail. ~ Ami Ayalon

Without desire, women bored me beyond all expectation, and obviously I bored them too. No more gambling and no more theater - I was probably in the realm of truth. But truth, cher ami, is a colossal bore ~ Albert Camus

Grayson is who he is, she said. Who am I? I want to hear her tell me. I look at the picture of me in the tutu. All I want is for him to be true to himself. My mind races, but I keep coming back to what i know is true: they knew. They knew, and it was okay. ~ Ami Polonsky

I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it. ~ Ami Bera

It drives me mental, every time I think of the situation and just how much Ami really meant to me, after the fact. Ah, but it's fairly obvious that idiots, like me, are always going to be the very last ones to figure it all out! It kills me most that Ami was the only one who could ever see the real me, she was the one who always came along and saved me from myself. She had that charm without ever realizing it, I think. ~ Andrew James Pritchard

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war. ~ Ami Ayalon

Heart throbs- yes, heart throbs of happiness, heart throbs of courage, heart throbs that make us feel better. Those things that appeal to others; that note of inspiration laid aside
bring it forth and let us make a magazine that will speak the language of the heart as well as of the mind. ~ Ami McKay

I couldn't believe it; my deepest darkest fantasy of a cute school girl slowly stripping in front of me was finally unbelievingly coming true! Furthermore, it wasn't just any school girl, but one from my school, that was the icing on the cake, or at least it should have been. Because, at the same time that my fantasy was becoming reality, I felt that I was being very badly cheated. Why couldn't it have been sixteen year old Heather Johnson or fifteen year old Pamela wade stripping before me, instead of the eight year old Ami Fujishiro? ~ Andrew James Pritchard

He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset.
"It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a national catastrophe."
"Thank you," I said coldly. ~ Agatha Christie

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do. ~ Ami Bera

Find the stories that unite us ~ Ami Vitale

To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other ~ Ami Vitale

In moments of pain, we seek revenge. ~ Ami Ayalon

Empathy is the key to great stories. ~ Ami Vitale

I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft. ~ Ami Vitale

Bidden or not, God is here. ~ Ami McKay

I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come. ~ Ami Vitale

He did not know how to make her understand that he would be happy, most happy, to become her husband in his turn. He certainly could not tell her that, now, at this moment, in this place, in the presence of this corpse; nevertheless he could, he believed, find one of those ambiguous, acceptable, complicated statements whose words have hidden significance, and which can, by their calculated reservations, express everything you intend. ~ Guy De Maupassant

My troubling sister, the one who held my hand crossing the street. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for. ~ Ami Bera

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate. ~ Ami Bera

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening. ~ Ami Bera

Honestly, if I can't clearly understand the workings of a young innocent girl, like Ami, then how can I ever possibly expect to understand any other women? That chiefly was what was on my mind at that moment. Seriously, why should things which should be simple, like relationships between two people, be so complicated? Still, it doesn't matter if we go a bit wrong, because every time we go wrong in any relationship, if we care, we will always go in search of the solutions. ~ Andrew James Pritchard

That feeling you get before you open your eyes to get ready to get out of bed and start your day. It's almost as if you were never comfy when you got up, but you remember it. 'Remembrance', from the past, remembered from the future. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day. ~ Guy De Maupassant

If you want to properly tell a story, you have to be willing to write it a thousand ways.

And then you must be brave enough to share it with others. ~ Ami McKay

White and black. Light and dark. And me, in the middle of it all. Gray. ~ Ami Polonsky

Don't think of it as the end of the world when your milk spills, think of the beginning of love when you look up into the eyes of the man cleaning it up. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period. ~ Ami Ayalon

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself. ~ Agatha Christie

This notary was a little man, completely round, round in every part. His head looked like a ball nailed onto another ball, supported by two legs that were so tiny and so short that they also closely resembled balls. ~ Guy De Maupassant

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Anyway, the thing is that we need to understand that with all - frankly, with all due respect for the requirements of international law, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, a peace process is a political enterprise. And there are things that governments can do and things that they cannot do, because if you do things that leave you without political support, then you can do nothing. You can write poetry, not make peace. ~ Shlomo Ben-Ami

There's no match for the sweetness independence brings. ~ Ami McKay

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. ~ Belle Ami

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order. ~ Ami Ayalon

...to remind myself that a person can die while they're still alive, simply by not choosing to live." It's taken me a long time to understand what she'd meant by that. Worry can be pernicious. Left unchecked, it slowly bleeds the soul of joy and replaces it with fear. ~ Ami McKay

Standing in front of the girl's house, Mama yelled up at the windows, "Katie Adams, you whore, give me my husband back!" When Miss Adams' neighbours complained about all the noise Mama was making, my father came down to quiet her. He kissed her until she cried, but didn't come home. ~ Ami McKay

Her caramel skin and curly beach sand hair spreads in wavy chops like the choppy storm waves on the ocean. Her fluffy rose colored lips glisten with eyes emerald green and almond shaped set deep into her face and yet when she looks at you with those same deep set eyes, it feels like they jump out, speaking to you. ~ Ami Blackwelder

Mon ami, let this be a lesson to you. You are a man. Behave, then, like a man! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you! ~ Agatha Christie

Friendship, the endless title of love. Love from the person who cares of you most. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

What do you want? Love. Well, love gets what she wants one way or another. ~ Ami McKay

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans. ~ Ami Bera

On those days, Hasan understood what Ami had meant when she said that there are memories that cannot be spoken of, because to speak of them imperfectly is to rob the of something vital, though to leave them intact, inside, is to leave no space for anything else in your life. ~ Kamila Shamsie

It's hard to breathe and my heart is thumping, and all of a sudden, I'm worried that it might explode from all these years of wishing. ~ Ami Polonsky

The fact is, I don't think we can ever go back. There are things in life that are just not meant to be. Sometimes you just have to let go. In fact, I'm asking you to let go, ~ Belle Ami

The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.) ~ Charles De Leusse

Hanged, Ami. Your father was not tapestry. ~ George R.R. Martin

Ami sniffed, then cooed at the baby. "You are the mostest beautiful, aren't you? So precious, my darling. Where's Ash? Ash, I need to have another baby."
Ash, still wrestling Astar the bear cub while Stella clung to his back, her arms wrapped around his neck, throttling him as she chattered merrily, called back. "Right this minute? Because I'll need to get undressed. ~ Jeffe Kennedy

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life. ~ Ami Ayalon

He killed himself because he couldn't bear ... Ah, cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? ~ Albert Camus

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of. ~ Ami Ayalon

Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians. ~ Agatha Christie

Tunnel vision can kill creativity. ~ Ami Vitale

The Poetry that Searches

Poetry that paints a portrait in words,
Poetry that spills the bottled emotions,
Gives life to the feelings deep inside,
Breaks through all the times wept,
To sweep you in a whirling ecstatic delight.

The chiseled marble of language,
The paint spattered canvas,
Where colors flow through words,
Where emotions roll on a canvas,
And it all begins with you.

The canvas that portrays the trembling you,
Through the feelings that splash,
Through the words that spatter,
All over the awaiting canvas.
Such is the painting sketched with passion,
Colored with the heart's unleashed emotions.

The poetry that reads your trembling heart,
The poetry that feeds the seed of your dreams,
That poetry that reveals light within rain,
Takes you to a place where beauty lies in stain.
The poetry that whispers-
"May you find the stars, in a night so dark,
May you find the moon, so rich with silver,
May you sip the madness and delight
In a night berserk with a wailing agony".
Such words that arise from spilling emotions,
So recklessly you fall, in love with life again.

So, you rise shedding your fears,
To chase after your dreams,
As you hear thunder in the rain,
That carries your pain,
Through the painting of words, colored with courage,
Splashed with ferocity, ami ~ Jayita Bhattacharjee

When do I get to do that, Maman?", she´d asked. "When do I get to say whatever I wish?"

"When it pains you not to," her mother had replied.

"What if I´m too scared?"

"All the more reason to speak your mind. ~ Ami McKay

It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice.
But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time.
I stop. I think.
Supposing in the grand infinity of this universe two particles of life, Ami and me, swirl endlessly like grains of sand in the oceans of the world
how much of a chance is there for these two particles, these two grains of sand, to collide, to rest briefly together ... at the same moment in time?
That is what happened with Ami and me ... this miracle of chance. ~ Kathryn Lasky

Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood
never! ~ Albert Camus

I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come. ~ Ami Bera

Loving who you are, not thinking about the inside? What to do? Well... If you think about it, it's nothing about yours looks at all. If there was a college for dumb and pretty people, guess how many people wouldn't make it into college. Me, and many, many of my friends. So you see, you can't take away what's already there... talking about intellegence (you can't take intellegence away from yourself). But if someone tries to give me a MAKEOVER, I of course immediatly try to be nice about it, but I can't really fit words for what I'm about to do. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle. ~ Ami McKay

Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy. ~ Ami McKay

I believe in what I see. What I hear, what I feel. I mostly believe in my scholarship, I hope that's what you believe in too. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

As a doctor, I understand how actions can affect lives. ~ Ami Bera

Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Bon chance, mon ami, Dante called softly.
Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad. ~ Alexandra Ivy

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients. ~ Ami Bera

sometimes life presents Herculean obstacles. We are all but small participants on the chessboard of life. ~ Belle Ami

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care. ~ Ami Bera

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives. ~ Ami Bera

Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again. ~ Ami McKay

What you say and do in a crisis matters. ~ Ami Bera

Ameikh ami, ve'Elo-hai-ikh Elo-hai - Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. ~ Joseph Telushkin

Evidently, it takes equally thin parts of kindness and sincerity to marry well. ~ Ami McKay

A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love. ~ Ami McKay

Christmas Day has come and gone, the New Year lies ahead. Strange things happen Between the Years, in the days outside of time. Minutes go wild, hours vanish. Idleness becomes a clever thief, stealing the names of the days of the week, muting the steady tick of watches and clocks. These are the hours when angels, ghosts, demons and meddlers ride howling wind and flickering candlelight, keen to stir unguarded hearts and restless minds. ~ Ami McKay

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death. ~ Amy Harmon

Friendship is when you answer that friend request on Skype and text twenty random letters, that is true friendship. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

Overcome anything you please, just not love. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

I hope I'll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story and that of the countless immigrants whose American Dream stories have helped build our country into the greatest nation in the world. ~ Ami Bera

I realized I had no friends. Besides, even if I had had, I shouldn't be any better off. If I had been able to commit suicide and then see their reaction, why, then the game would have been worth the candle. But the earth is dark, cher ami, the coffin thick, and the shroud opaque, The eyes of the soul - to be sure - if there is a soul and it has eyes! But you see, we're not sure, we can't be sure. Otherwise, there would be a solution; at least one could get oneself taken seriously. Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism. So if there were the least certainty that one could enjoy the show, it would be worth proving to them what they are unwilling to believe and thus amazing them. But you kill yourself and what does it matter whether or not they believe you? You are not there to see their amazement and their contrition (fleeting at best), to witness, according to every man's dream, your own funeral. In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that is all. Besides, isn't it better thus? We would suffer too much from their indifference. ~ Albert Camus

Now listen carefully: Marriage, to me, is not a chain but an association. I must be free, entirely unfettered, in all my actions
my coming and my going; I can tolerate neither control, jealousy, nor criticism as to my conduct. I pledge my word, however, never to compromise the name of the man I marry, nor to render him ridiculous in the eyes of the world. But that man must promise to look upon me as an equal, an ally, and not as an inferior, or as an obedient, submissive wife. My ideas, I know, are not like those of other people, but I shall never change them. ~ Guy De Maupassant

He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us. ~ Ami Vitale