There are trappings in every step along the trail. Concerns over complacency or (being) overconfident and feeling too good about yourself. But I'm hopeful and I'm very confident given the group that we have that these guys are going to maintain their focus and their hunger. They'll push forward.
Quotes about trappings (16 Quotes)
Those that favor the preservation of the current model fear that ceding oversight to the U.N. would result in a less 'laissez-faire' environment -- that it would open the door to tighter control and thereby engender all the trappings of control potential taxation, inefficiency, or restriction on free speech.
I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-brand toys. And outside, the fairly new Lincoln Town Carfor which she was several months behind on payments.
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
If Jupiter goes under, it provides yet more proof that even in-the-know companies couldn't resist the trappings of new-economy excess. It's a classic dotcom example, ... Jupiter's data allowed a lot of companies to go public, but it grew too quickly and cut back too late.
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songwriting is the hardest and most personal thing I do. When I'm writing, I'll go into the studio at six in the morning and stay until after dark, including we
Cage of freedom, that's our prison we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside to make it safer we double the guard.
The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.
There's a great wave beginning in this country. I saw it and felt it practically every day now for a year, ... And when it breaks, it will carry the trappings of political privilege with it. It will vanquish the insidious bond between big money and political decisions.
This bill is a sham because the House leadership does not want real ethics and lobbying reform. They aren't rock stars, but they want the luxury trappings to be showered with lobbyists' money and entertainment, and flown around on corporate jets above the fray of security lines, delayed flights and missed connections.
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.