Quotes About Display

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Not only did the president-elect wear his deep and bitter grievances on his sleeve, but it was now clear that the fact of having been elected president would not change his unfiltered, apparently uncontrollable, utterly shoot-from-the-hip display of wounds, resentments, and ire.

I've always hated bars. The simpatico spots where the regulars, tired of seeing the same faces bent over their glasses of lukewarm beer, turn towards the door with anxious optimism whenever a new silhouette appears, as well as those big trendy clubs, often ear-splittingly loud and crawling with the latest version of what passes for a smart set — dressed to kill and constantly on display and most of them dull as white icing.

I refuse to learn your name. Does that not offend you?" "Nope." Well. That was all the argument he had. No sense in conjuring false reasons to display a morality he did not possess.

It looked like a Roman candle to me.

kad je ve? cirkus, neka svijet i vidi cirkus!

The way it had been displayed, the way it had been discarded, that was a thing too many men had done to too many women across time.

Trusting God when the miracle does not come, when the urgent prayer gets no answer, when there is only darkness—this is the kind of faith God values perhaps most of all. This is the kind of faith that can be developed and displayed only in the midst of difficult circumstances. This is the kind of faith that cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.

Below this shelf are these big dinner plates on display, they're wedding china that came from Aunts Penelope and Daphne some years before Lester and Chester. They were very china-giving aunts, which was of course secret warfare because the more they gave the more you had to find some place to display the stuff. We had china in boxes in the cabins that we couldn't sell because it had to be taken out when The Aunts arrived.

The peacock's gaudy tail does not enable him to fly any higher, but it raises his status in the eyes of the peahen.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

There was in his nature a tendency to display a taste for fairness and justice—not the "fairness and justice" that politicians are forever carrying on about, but fairness and justice in the true, original sense of the words. As a consequence, the people of Mishima regarded him as a troublemaker and kept their distance.

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

She believed the key element to patriotism was display; that it was all about being seen to support a cause, being seen to wave a flag.

There was a glass-fronted cabinet opposite, filled with plates on display stands and teacups with so many curlicues it was a wonder you could drink from them without cutting your lips.

What was that shameful display?" Wilem demanded after she had gone. "What?" I asked. "What?" he mocked my tone. "Can you even pretend to be that thick? If a girl as fair as that looked at me with one eye the way she looked at you with two…We'd have a room by now, to say it carefully.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

Akhenaten's kingship provides an unintended caricature of all modern leaders who indulge in the trappings of charismatic display.

And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

And for a full 180 days he displayed the glorious riches of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness.

to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord GOD.

I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.