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Quotes About Signs

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you
~ Bob Dylan
The differences have poison within it, which bites, and signs its sign. Conversely, antipathy echoes and claps, as thunders that rain or no rain; however, in both ways that blow over.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A man, without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him; and even this it cannot do long, if the signs of power do not arise.
~ Frederick Douglass
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sicknesses, especially those affecting nerves and head, are signs that the defensive strength of the strong natures is lacking; precisely this is suggested by irritability, so pleasure and displeasure become foreground problems.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
~ Umberto Eco
I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really know. It's okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.
~ Boyd Holbrook
There were signs and I missed them. For instance, Crake said once, Would you kill someone you loved to spare them pain? You mean, commit euthanasia? said Jimmy. Like putting down your pet turtle? Just tell me, said Crake. I don't know. What kind of love, what kind of pain?
~ Margaret Atwood
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
~ Denis Diderot
Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.
~ Deepak Chopra
Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.
~ Anne Heche
I've gotten endless signs of the greatness of God's love and hilarious care, but I always end up needing a newer sign, maybe one that is cuter and more spangly.
~ Anne Lamott
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
~ Annie Dillard
If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs, then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
~ Annie Dillard
We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
~ Seraphim Rose
We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ." ? Seraphim Rose
~ Seraphim Rose
Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.
~ Paulo Coelho
I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.
~ Sarah Dessen
delineated with signs reading: TOWN OF AMHERST WATERSHED NO TRESPASSING Which every boy in the neighborhood understood as: PRIVATE PRESERVE FOR KIDS
~ John Elder Robison
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meaning and signs of the outer pilgrimage, one can have one without the other. It's best to have both. —Thomas Merton, 1964
~ John Francis
Unlike the others, this series of Four Blood Moons contains a Shemittah year beginning September 25, 2014, and concluding on September 13, 2015.
~ John Hagee