On A Silver Platter Quotes

#1. Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Alicia Keys

#2. Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

Holly Black

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

Bill Maher

#6. And there
Like I thought I knew
And aint life a bitch
Was his head on a silver platter

Valerie

#7. The exchange of money for my willing participation was served on a silver platter, requiring nothing more than the abandonment of my principles and the departure of virtue, which fell in between the cracks of insignificance, given in trade for the simple comforts I once knew. - from "Plight" 2015

Don Swann II

#8. 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

#9. A full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, beautiful, bossy moon. The kind you want to serve things to on a silver platter.

Rebecca Wells

#10. Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#11. Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Allan Bloom

#12. Every man or woman had to earn his station in life with training and preparation, and not just receive it on a silver platter because of a blue throat.

Amish Tripathi

#13. You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

Gordon Wu

#14. I'd just single handedly given the love of my life to my best friend - on a silver platter, with a shiny bow attached.

Rachel Van Dyken

#15. We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,

Fred Upton

#16. 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

#17. Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Terry Orlick

#18. Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

Katarina Witt

#19. The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

Jill Scott

#20. Look to yourself; you've got a gold mine in you that must be exploited. Don't exchange yourself for fear to trade on silver platter. You brought a load of gifts to the world; use them and die empty!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. I often do crazy siren noises, or, like, a high-pitched dolphin, just to make sure that all my range is there. I make random noise and blurt out random sounds, to make sure I get rid of any bad nerves. I want to make sure to feel as confident as possible.

Ella Henderson

#22. I could never leave,' Pine Sap said.
'Why?' she asked.
Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. 'Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#23. I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

Sevyn Streeter

#24. I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

Ikue Mori

#25. Life is too short to be serious all the time!

Sherry Monahan

#26. Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Gary Zukav

#27. He sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.

G.K. Chesterton

#28. I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

Eva Mendes