Public Displays Quotes

#1. Public displays of inappropriate behavior are a favorite hobby of mine, a cheap thrill.

Willow Madison

#2. Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Romola Garai

#3. That's not to say we were totally innocent of any public displays of affection; there was some hand-holding and the occasional hurried good-bye kiss on even days, when we had different sixth periods.

Robyn Schneider

#4. There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

Miroslav Volf

#5. God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

R.C. Sproul

#6. I never thought much about public displays of "Will you marry me?" It seems more like putting on a show for others rather than an intimate, private and special moment between two people.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

Meg Rosoff

#8. I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

Edward Hopper

#9. Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.

Caroline Blackwood

#10. We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better.

David McCullough

#11. Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

Gerald Jonas

#12. The bastard was effectively stuck until he and Morfyd helped him. Fearghus smiled a little at his father's suffering and the female who caused it.
I do love that woman.

G.A. Aiken

#13. There's no sweeter taste in the entire history of the world than your skin on fire. For me.

Rebecca Zanetti

#14. Please, Eve, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation."
"Keep it up, ace, and I'll give you a public display of affection that'll have you limping for a week."
"Now I'm excited.

J.D. Robb

#15. In the name of religious freedom, relativists have banished religion from the public square. They say they have to destroy public displays of religion in order to protect it. They response has been a culturewide gag order on Christianity in governmental and even commercial circumstances.

Robert H. Knight

#16. Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

Natasha Lyonne

#17. I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.

Mark Viduka

#18. We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

Sloane Crosley

#19. As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.

James Lankford

#20. I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

Melissa Etheridge

#21. I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

Robert Genn

#22. In the mind of The English, kissing in the rain, as well as other public displays of affection, belongs to the category of soft porn. Sane people don't do soft porn in public. Only animals do. And aliens.

Angela Kiss

#23. We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.

Mark Wallace

#24. If I hold you with my emotions,
you'll become a wished-for companion.

Rumi

#25. On the sidewalks everyone holding either a giant coffee or a cell phone, as though a law had been declared against public displays of empty-handedness.

Andrew Pyper