Handed To You On A Silver Platter Quotes

#1. Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Dale Carnegie

#2. Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.

Cathy Lamb

#3. Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

#4. You know what my friends and I used to call girls like you? Girls who had everything handed to them on a silver platter, who only cared about how they looked and who was dating the most popular guy?"
"What?"
His grin grows wider. "We called you bitches. You girls were straight-up bitches.

Jessica Warman

#5. The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

Nachman Of Breslov

#6. I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#7. I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

Holly Near

#8. Jealous much, Matthews? Is it because I'm a favorite, or is it because you still want me?

Alex Rosa

#9. Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Dag Hammarskjold

#10. Why do boys think they can fight over someone like she's some kind of trophy?

Zoe Sugg

#11. If you love a person in the real sense, you want them to be happy, not take them like butter and spread them thinly over your own bread, to make it more palatable for yourself.

Nella Last

#12. At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Neil Postman

#13. Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

Gwendoline Riley

#14. If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do ... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

Freddie Mercury

#15. If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Tom Hicks

#16. People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

Brian Blessed

#17. I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

James A. Michener