Quotes with showing

  • You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
  • When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.
  • Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
  • Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
  • Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
  • We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.
  • The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
  • The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
  • The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
  • The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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  • Sir John Lubbock Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Thorstein Veblen The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • William Shenstone Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Betty Ford ... a woman... told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Woody Allen Eighty percent of success is showing up.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Henry James Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Bill Kelly Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
    Blast from the Past
    Bill Kelly
     
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Parry I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
    As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
    Bruce Parry
     
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  • Bruce Springsteen I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht I see with sympathy
    The swollen veins on his brow, showing
    How exhausting it is to be evil.
    The Mask of Evil
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bryan Batt I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Brody Jenner I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Robert Collier In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Van Morrison In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
    Van Morrison
     
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  • Eric Hoffer It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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