Quotes About Display

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

The Mothership is in the Smithsonian now. That's probably one of the biggest displays there.

there is nothing wherein the force of a horse is so much seen as in a round and sudden stop.

Homo sentimentalis [...] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

What lunatic had decided that when people died you should hire a taxidermist to fix them up for one final look? She would much rather remember them alive than on grotesque display in their Sunday best.

No negativity allowed: we're only asking to be admired in the display culture we were raised in.

Taking my paw to your young Mattimeo's ear, if he keeps upsetting my candied chestnut display. If you'll excuse me," Sister May said, and hurried off.

I have a knife collection.

You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it.

I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons.

I stepped inside and stopped, blinking in astonishment. From the exterior I'd expected a charming little book and curio shop with the inner dimensions of a university Starbucks. What I got was a cavernous interior that housed a display of books that made the library Disney's Beast gave to Beauty on their wedding day look understocked.

struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature.

Violence was not uncommon in nineteenth-century bars. Customers at the Tiger Saloon in Eureka, Nevada, bore witness to a knife fight between "Hog-Eyed" Mary Irwin and "Bulldog" Kate Miller, and the owner of a joint in lower Manhattan, Gallus Mag, not only bit the ears off customers who got out of control but she also kept the trophies in jars of alcohol on display behind the bar.

We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.

The tabernacle was the symbolic physical display of that otherwise invisible presence. Thus it stood at both the physical center of the camp and the spiritual heart of the nation.

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

The Six Diseases: 1. The desire for victory. 2. The desire to resort to technical cunning. 3. The desire to display all that has been learned. 4. The desire to awe the enemy. 5. The desire to play the passive role. 6. The desire to get rid of whatever disease one is affected by.

No, you can't tell people anything, you've got to show 'em.

A lamp can be covered with dust and dirt to the point of obscuring its light completely. The problem life poses for the human self is to cleanse the dross of its being to the point where its infinite center can shine forth in full display. p22

Admiral King echoed those points, calling the naval campaign in the Java Sea "a magnificent display of very bad strategy," but the judgment is probably a little unfair. The Allied

Hugh should've brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.