Display Quotes
467 quotes by 400 authors
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Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very…
— Susanna Moodie
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is…
— Unknown Author
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Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are…
— Scott McClanahan
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Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of
— Morgan Freeman
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Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of…
— Henry Rollins
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The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
— George C. Scott
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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
— Michael Caine
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We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.
— Greta Scacchi
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It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
— Eric Metaxas
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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
— Nadeem Aslam
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Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately…
— Jon Stewart
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Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
— Jon Winokur
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Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind…
— Tim Frick
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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
— Allan Bloom
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Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis…
— David Shields
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
— John Updike
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One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride…
— James Keller
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For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful…
— Freeman Dyson
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The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how…
— James C. Collins
Who Wrote These Display Quotes
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