Quotes About Silver Platter

#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. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Valerie

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Gordon Wu

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Terry Orlick

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

Katarina Witt

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

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#21. I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

Russell Lynes

#22. I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

Patricia MacLachlan

#23. Each one of us is not a single person, but contains many persons who have not all the same moral value

Marcel Proust

#24. On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list ... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.

Gabriel Macht

#25. Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.

Thomas Sowell

#26. One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Lev Yilmaz

#27. They were an end-of-days couple, not naked in a garden but wrapped in layers in a snow-covered landscape where there were no more apples on the trees and women would no longer have to take the blame because the old lie had been covered over by snow.

Graham Joyce

#28. Relax. This isn't the scary part yet."
"Mmm, not helpful."
"Try to think about puppies," he suggested. "No wait, not puppies. Think about kittens. Demons don't eat kittens. Too many hairballs."
"Hey, maybe we could try not talking for a while.

Cecily White

#29. I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

James Wolpert

#30. At this moment, as I stood on the verge of tears, the words "realism" and "romanticism" welled up within me. I have no sense of realism. And that this very fact might be what permits me to go on living sends cold chills through my whole body.

Osamu Dazai

#31. The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

W. H. Auden

#32. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb