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Quotes About Display

New York is a Show Me state. We're like Missouri.
~ Stephon Marbury
But this, too, was a performance.
~ Tim O'Brien
One of the things that we, as men, have often missed in the church in multiple ways is both experiencing and displaying God's power and blessings collectively. With
~ Tony Evans
All this display, while the working classes were pinched beyond bearing; it was not wise, or tasteful: it smacked of ostentatious wealth. The Europe from which Phryne had lately come was impoverished, even the nobility; and was keeping its head down, still shocked by the Russian revolution. It had become fashionable to make no display; understatement had become most stylish.
~ Kerry Greenwood
In sum: the church exists to be a living exhibit of the reality of the gospel.
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
How many sandwiches did you eat at some thing like this? There were nearly twenty more on the trays. Did you leave some for propriety sake? She hadn't touched them. Wait, were they decorative?
~ Kevin Wilson
Unexpectedly, she took several trotting steps and then threw in a couple of feeble attempts at bucking! She felt good enough to try and play! ... Instead of slowing down, she broke into a very awkward canter, punctuated by all sorts of goofy attempts to throw her heels up. I couldn't help but laugh out loud at her faltering display of joyful rejuvenation.
~ Kim Meeder
Put in simple terms, in a post-pandemic world beset by unemployment, insufferable inequalities and angst about the environment, the ostentatious display of wealth will no longer be acceptable.
~ Klaus Schwab
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
She wants to live simply and thinks luxuries little more than social display.
~ George Sayer
heroism not as a purposeful display, but a natural manifestation of simple human goodness, generosity and courage.
~ George Sessions Perry
You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn't see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.
~ J.R. Ward
Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.
~ Jack London
Twitter is awesome to share news with fans, but I would never choose to only have social media and put everything in my life on display.
~ Sarah Hyland
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
~ Edith Widder
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
~ Tilda Swinton
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.
~ Sydney Smith
In the end, Scipio and Salvadore were condemned to a gruesome death. They were to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered. As a deterrent to potential conspirators, each man's head and body parts were to be displayed in different counties.17
~ Sylviane A. Diouf
Yet, he is greatly loved," said Marcus. Scaevola nodded, and frowned. "Perhaps it is because a totally evil man has an irresistible charm, and excites the envy and admiration of those who dare not display themselves so completely.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Showy displays of love don't come naturally to everyone. They don't come naturally to me. They also come with a risk: a risk of rejection, being made to feel silly, or making yourself into a spectacle.
~ Elizabeth Flock
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
~ Laura Marano
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
~ Benjamin Lee Whorf