Showily Quotes & Sayings

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. — Anne Sullivan

This is what happens when they give you medals for breaking the rules: you forget the rules apply to you. — Hugh Howey

Meretricious. Showily attractive but cheap or insincere. — Stephanie Perkins

Sex is child's play; but gender is serious business. — Yuval Noah Harari

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror. — Richard E. Byrd

All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in the
conscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source. — Derric Yuh Ndim

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

some of my layers had started to peel away. — Karina Halle

There will never be a state of society anything like perfect! There never will be a time when there won't be a large proportion of people who feel poor no matter how much they have, and envy their neighbors who know how to wear cheap clothes showily, and envy neighbors who can dance or make love or digest better. — Sinclair Lewis

Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them, he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go. — Susanna Kearsley

They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible. — Dave Kopel

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. — Jim Morris