Quotes of Showing - somelinesforyou

“ What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at. ”

- Noel Coward

“ Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. ”

- Florence E. King

“ If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world. ”

- Jacques Chirac

“ 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

“ Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all. ”

- James Caan

“ Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. ”

- William Shenstone

“ You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. ”

- Oliver Cromwell

“ What commonly hinders us from showing the recesses of our heart to our friends is not the distrust we have of them, but that distrust we have of ourselves. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The superior person uses learning as a means of self-improvement. The lesser person uses learning as a means of showing off. ”

- Mencius

“ The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman. ”

- Eva Mendes

“ Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. ”

- Noel Coward

“ In a way, it's mathematically sure that if your poise is showing, if you are unhurried and unharried, you're on your budget. ”

- Loretta Young

“ The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance, no sex, no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife. ”

- Harry V. Wade

“ I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see. ”

- Dziga Vertov

“ We've got a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence we're doing the right stuff because the athletes are showing it, especially in the big championships. ”

- Bode Miller

“ Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. ”

- Vincente Fox

“ After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. ”

- Mickey Mantle

“ I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ”

- Roger Kahn

“ I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. ”

- Art Garfunkel

“ You are cautious in showing your true self to others. Have you thought about plastic surgery? ”

- Dr. Squid

“ Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. ”

- Abdul Baha

“ Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. ”

- Josh Billings

“ One cannot review a bad book without showing off. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first: showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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