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Quotes About Signs

Hunter, if you leave signs for other Comanche bands, why do white men have so much trouble finding you?" "They are not smart.
~ Catherine Anderson
Of course, my children were horrified that Oskar had been abused, although they weren't wholly surprised. Having grown up with fostering, they could often spot the signs when a child was harbouring a dark secret, just as I could. Fostering had taught us that evil things do happen and they're not just horror stories in the news.
~ Cathy Glass
Il mistero di come i concetti e le idee prendano corpo in noi attraverso i segni che ci scambiamo lo affascinava sempre di più negli ultimi tempi. Il linguaggio. Avrebbe trattato prima o poi il problema delle sue forme. Avrebbe trattato anche quello.
~ Giulio Leoni
Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep.
~ Terri Guillemets
Anthony Starkweather. An elderly, well preserved gentleman, slenderly built, showing all the signs of a man who has lived clean and has been almost an ascetic.
~ Jack London
Be alert to these invisible quotation marks, even within a word.
~ Jacques Derrida
What interests me about the eyes is that they are part of the body that doesn't age. In other words, if one looks for ones childhood across all the signs of aging in the body, the deterioration of musculature, the whitening of the hair, changes in height and weight, one can find one's childhood in the look of the eyes.
~ Jacques Derrida
We are all on a journey to an unknown place, all subject to forces and opinions that threaten to destroy us. At the same time, we are surrounded by miracles that protect us whenever we feel ourselves to be most vulnerable. A footprint in stone here, a golden sandal there, a solitary cloud somewhere else. Are we not looking for such signs that tell us that we are protected by an invisible hand? Certainly I was beginning to believe this to be so.
~ James Cowan
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
Knowledge and wisdom are both the signs of hunger and thirst of creativity.
~ Euginia Herlihy
If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
~ Compton Gage
If you're healthy and you're told that you're capable of playing and the medical staff signs off on it, to me, you play because that's what you are paid to do.
~ Troy Aikman
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
~ Hans Arp
Verbal communication signs of flirting (that leave no room for guessing) include the famous (and ridiculous) pick-up lines:
~ Terri Savelle Foy
between the Rapture and the Second Coming, but even though these signs of His Coming
~ Terry James
Lord…grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus" (Acts 4:29-30).
~ Terry Law
Say: All matters must be referred to the Book of God; I am indeed the First to believe in God and in His signs; I am the One Who divulgeth and proclaimeth the Truth and I have been invested with every excellent title of God, the Mighty, the Incomparable. Verily I have attained the Day of the First Manifestation and by the bidding of the Lord and as a token of His grace, I shall attain the Day of the Latter Manifestation.
~ The Bab
Let no one among you say that God hath withheld the outpouring of His bounty unto you, for assuredly Gods mercy unto those to whom the Bayn is given hath been fulfilled and completed until the Day of Resurrection. Would that ye might believe in the signs of God.
~ The Bab
I swear by God, the Peerless, the Incomparable, the True One: for no other reason hath He the supreme Testimony of God invested Me with clear signs and tokens than that all men may be enabled to submit to His Cause.
~ The Bab
The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination.
~ The War Cry
Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Lord, inspire us to read your Scriptures and meditate upon them day and night. We beg you to give us real understanding of what we need, that we in turn may put its precepts into practice. Yet we know that understanding and good intentions are worthless, unless rooted in your graceful love. So we ask that the words of Scripture may also be not just signs on a page, but channels of grace into our hearts. Origen FURTHER
~ Thomas C. Oden
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
~ John Updike
Vielleicht stimmt es ja, dass die Natur den Menschen manchmal Zeichen schickte. Und dieses Zeichen hieß: Man darf nicht vergessen, dass auf Verzweiflung wieder Freude und Glück folgen.
~ Nicholas Sparks