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Quotes About Signs

If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.
~ Brian MacLearn
Self-preservation is one of the signs of sentient life.
~ Mur Lafferty
If signs and wonders do not follow the Gospel we preach, then we are preaching only part of the Gospel. There is more to the Gospel than salvation from sin. The full Gospel includes baptism in the Spirit, speaking in tongues and the release of signs and wonders, such as healing and deliverance. God wants His Kingdom, His power and His glory to accompany the Gospel wherever we go!
~ Che Ahn
Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time - like the light of that star up there, which may in reality be already quenched, when it looks to us to be shining its brightest.
~ Thomas Mann
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.
~ Thomas Merton
One of the sweetest fruits of victory, after sleep and looting, must be the chance to ignore no-parking signs.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I shrugged into my favorite sweatshirt--you know the kind--where the cuffs are worn and torn and all signs of elasticity have long since disappeared. Whether I wanted to admit
~ Kathleen Long
Perhaps best known is the case of Koko, the gorilla to whom the Gorilla Foundation taught American Sign Language. Koko learned more than a thousand signs, created compound signs to convey new information, and showed a significant understanding of spoken English.9
~ Ken Robinson
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
~ C. L. R. James
As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus.
~ Cameron Dokey
Pre-incident indicators are those detectable factors that occur before the outcome being predicted.
~ Gavin de Becker
There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn't looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I'd just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.
~ Gayle Forman
capitalism is not "materialistic," but "semiotic." It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands
~ Geoffrey Miller
Some people believe eagles are messengers and that they appear when there's something we need to do in our lives.
~ Inglath Cooper
I don't like you, I love you. You're a portent for me, a sign. I've always lived by signs.
~ Iris Murdoch
Most people live their lives without any link with the divine and do not note the signs, coincidences, premonitions, and small daily miracles in which the supernatural is manifest.
~ Isabel Allende
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
~ C. V. Wedgwood
You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's cognition - they're already showing us signs that they want choice.
~ Sheena Iyengar
Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.
~ Heinz Pagels
If there's one thing you respect, it's coincidences. They never are and never will be just coincidences. They're shining neon signs, and you gotta read the signs.
~ Susan May
Thirteen is the most sinister of all the signs./ If you want to greet a gremlin, it will do just fine.
~ Susan Weiner
The garden is open to the public, although there are no signs to indicate this. It is a small place, hidden from view.
~ Susanna Moore
Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
~ Susanne K. Langer
All my life, I should not have worried so much about looking foolish; I see that now. Signs matter. And all waves are dangerous, especially the ones you refuse to see coming.
~ Suzanne Finnamore