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Quotes About Displaying

To the unblushing womankind of Florence To go about displaying breast and paps.
~ Joseph Conrad
I've never had any chance at displaying my talents as a sleuth. I think I might be rather good at it.
~ Agatha Christie
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
~ Ralph Cudworth
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
~ Blaise Pascal
Or was it in fact displaying the predatory patience for which polar bears are famed, lying quietly in anticipation of the moment when one of us would lean too far forward and into striking distance?
~ Kieran Mulvaney
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
~ Ralph Cudworth
I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.
~ Alain Ducasse
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
~ Jamie Zawinski
could you have so little strength that you take pride in displaying your sorrow
~ Alexandre Dumas
I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.
~ Miroslav Volf
I beg your pardon," said Abbot. "You are quite right, of course. I am not myself fond of bad taste, though I am always displaying it. Go on.
~ John Dickson Carr
A singular hoax was displaying the agent wearing a paper bag mask, posing as an informer. "There's no doubt that they think we have a rat-snitch fingering them," Richards rejoiced.
~ Selwyn Raab
The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter
~ Samuel Johnson
The little child is above all shameless, and during its early years it evinces definite pleasure in displaying its body and especially its sexual organs. A counterpart to this desire which is to be considered as perverse, the curiosity to see other persons' genitals, probably appears first in the later years of childhood when the hindrance of the feeling of shame has already reached a certain development.
~ Sigmund Freud
Enjoying and displaying are both crucial. The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
~ John Piper
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
~ John Piper
God created me-and you-to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion, namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.
~ John Piper
It is the nature of human life to feed our ever-present security needs by displaying fear in the presence of anyone who is "different.
~ John Shelby Spong
Your womanhood is ultimately not about you. It's about displaying the glory of God and His powerful redemptive plan.
~ Mary A. Kassian
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries
~ Blaise Pascal
I'm an acquired taste, he assured her, displaying one dimple, but addictive.
~ Stephanie Bond
The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledge. You feel sort of annoying.
~ Sarnath Banerjee
That was one attribute in a man that Zane respected above all others. Especially since he had trouble displaying it himself.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
~ Kathy Griffin