Top 100 Quotes About Displays
#1. I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.
Laurie Graham
#2. The bash built-in type command searches your environment (including aliases, keywords, functions, built-ins, and files in the $PATH) for executable commands matching its arguments and displays the type and location of any matches.
Anonymous
#3. Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.
Les Carter
#4. Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.
Elizabeth Bishop
#5. In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news - and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying.
John J. Ratey
#6. Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.
Eric Holder
#7. Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#8. To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
Deepak Chopra
#9. All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
Saint Augustine
#10. I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.
Karen Abbott
#11. Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
Kate Christensen
#12. What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.
Stephanie Mills
#13. In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
Vladimir Kramnik
#14. In fact, overwhelmingly museum displays are artificial.
Bill Bryson
#15. In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.
Vivek Wadhwa
#16. Public displays of inappropriate behavior are a favorite hobby of mine, a cheap thrill.
Willow Madison
#17. By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
Ray Kurzweil
#18. Force, not persuasion, not discussion, is the legitimate instrument for influencing and policing the hockey mind. Fighting in hockey is one of the most magnificent and eloquent displays of refinement in all of sports.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#19. For the infinite player, seeing as genius, nature is the absolutely unlike. The infinite player recognizes nothing on the face of nature. Nature displays not only its indifference to human existence but its difference as well.
James P. Carse
#20. It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
William Shenstone
#21. As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.
Frank Pittman
#22. The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts ... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.
Sylvia Pankhurst
#23. Her Grace is all she has -
And that, so least displays -
One Art to recognize, must be,
Another Art, to praise.
Emily Dickinson
#24. Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel
Justine Picardie
#25. Encountering potential partners via online dating profiles reduces three-dimensional people to two-dimensional displays of information,
Aziz Ansari
#26. When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.
Mark W. Boyer
#27. I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Umberto Eco
#28. The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#29. By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.
Ray Kurzweil
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected.
Shuji Nakamura
#33. (So), he who displays himself does not shine;
Lao-Tzu
#34. His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand - passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.
John Calvin
#36. I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule,
Junichiro Koizumi
#37. Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere
("Between Four Yews")
Reggie Oliver
#38. All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays ... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Jesse Ventura
#39. Men are forced to resort to ridiculous displays of bravado in front of women.
Kathleen Tessaro
#40. Your Kindle will automatically go into sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity and a screensaver displays. This static screensaver uses no battery power. To put your Kindle in sleep mode, press and release the Power button. To wake up your Kindle, press and release the Power button.
Amazon
#41. Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
Daniel Radcliffe
#42. For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#43. No benign deity plucks television news show hosts from their desks in the prime of life and then hastily compensates their friends and family by displays of irradiated droplets in the sky.
Mark Leibovich
#44. An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.
Ludwig Von Mises
#45. To deny the existence of races or to replace the word 'race' by a synonym, hoping to produce some effect on the question of racism, displays only bad faith and stupidity.
Andre Pichot
#46. 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
#47. Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian
#48. Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?
Isaac Asimov
#49. Our Klutz clangs into Stop signs while riding a bike, and knocks over giant displays of expensive fine china. Despite being five foot nine and weighing 110 pounds, she is basically like a drunk buffalo who has never been a part of human society. But Fred Tom loves her anyway.
Mindy Kaling
#50. His reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling - to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
Emily Bronte
#51. Anytime a sage displays humanness - in regard to money, food, sex, relationships - we are shocked, shocked, because we are planning to escape life altogether, not live it, and the sage who lives life offends us.
Ken Wilber
#52. 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
#53. We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#54. He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy
death.
Heinrich Heine
#56. I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future.
Donna Tartt
#57. There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
Blaise Pascal
#58. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.
Courtney Summers
#59. Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.
Pat Conroy
#60. The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
Barack Obama
#61. The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.
Mike Harding
#62. I didn't have any money or ID. I didn't have a credit card. Hell, I didn't have a business card.
What would it say? 'Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays.
Jim Butcher
#64. When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.
Blaise Pascal
#65. At night returning, every labour sped,
He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
Oliver Goldsmith
#66. Men and women sit penitent over their little displays, watching their little programs, forgetting where they are in favor of where they'd wish to be.
Pierce Brown
#67. All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Good, modern, civilized Western white men are so easily cowed by charges of bias and privilege that they work tirelessly to outdo each other with social displays of moral universalism - by cucking themselves in every way imaginable. Western
Jack Donovan
#69. The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.
Francis Of Assisi
#70. Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
Bill Dedman
#71. Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmth crept up Shahrzad's neck. "Knows about what?"
Despina grinned. "The Caliph of Khorasan going into the gardens at dawn alone. And returning with a single rose.
Renee Ahdieh
#72. The content that Jessica Nigri puts out, really displays cosplay in the wrong light.
Yaya Han
#73. We may lack some polish,' he said. 'But distrust the society which displays overmuch dangerous charm.
Dorothy Dunnett
#74. Some were drawn towards displays of physical showboating, when it came to cats, while others preferred subtle intellectual stimulation.
Tom Cox
#75. We're so used to thinking that vitality lies in displays of power, but in truth our tenderness and basic sensitivity possess a much greater strength.
Brooks Palmer
#76. Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked ... The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.
John Cheever
#77. O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
George Orwell
#79. A vast unfocused rage rose in her, against men who considered displays of emotion a delicious open door; men who ogled your breasts under the pretense of scanning the wine shelves; men for whom your mere physical presence constituted a lubricious invitation. Her
Robert Galbraith
#80. If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity.
Malcolm X
#81. It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
Walter Scott
#82. All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.
Deborah Tannen
#83. The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
Dante Alighieri
#84. Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.
Lord Acton
#85. I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
Jenny Eclair
#86. They explained that if men want to put a large phone into their jeans, it has to be able to fit their buttocks. This is a company ranked worldwide number 1, number 2 in displays, and their marketing says this.
Terry Gou
#87. One acronym to live by: PDADP, meaning Personal Displays of Affection Disturb People.
Michelle A. Lammers
#88. Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
Astro Teller
#89. Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
Elizabeth Peters
#90. Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
#91. Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Coco Chanel
#93. You can't hint a man into bestowing the ideal gift that displays all the love, appreciation and understanding you feel is lacking the rest of year.
Lynn Coady
#95. Death displays nothing if not variety in its methods, which are often surprising and sometimes amusing.
Alan Dean Foster
#96. To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.
James Rennell
#97. Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
Epictetus
#98. At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you'd never be able to have them at home.
Anton Du Beke
#99. Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
J.R. Moehringer
#100. Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
Bill Joy
