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Quotes About Indications

When profit margins of a whole industry rise because of repeated price increases, the indication is not a good one for the long-range investor.
~ Philip A. Fisher
"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".
~ Lisa Kleypas
The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.
~ Confucius
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
~ Leon Krier
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
And my mother's afternoon escapes from the house that she could not quite consider her own were an indication that loneliness can be felt even in the most ideal of circumstances.
~ Anita Brookner
Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.
~ Geoff Dyer
Nevertheless, some surviving evidence indicates that Constantine himself was originally devoted to Apollo, supported by the fact that the god Sol Invictus continued to show up on the reverse types of Constantinian coinage until the mid-320s
~ Robin M Jensen
Simple curiosity, more than suspicion even, required that I search these faces for reactions, clues, indications-the faces that I knew better than any others, to the limits of my understanding such things. And of course they told me nothing.
~ Roger Zelazny
If I had to live in a city I think I would prefer New Orleans to any other--both Southern and Catholic and with indications that the Devil's existence is freely recognized.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education.
~ William Godwin
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
~ Charles Lyell
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.
~ Gustav Krupp
Therefore, let us not undervalue small signs; perhaps by means of them we will succeed in getting on the track of greater things.
~ Sigmund Freud
I should point out that the Gospels do not indicate on which day Jesus was raised. The women go to the tomb on the third day, and they find it empty. But none of the Gospels indicates that Jesus arose that morning before the women showed up. He could just as well have arisen the day before or even the day before that—just an hour, say, after he had been buried. The Gospels simply don't say.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
~ Goldwin Smith
The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.
~ Paulo Coelho
An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Acknowledge how certain behavior patterns—such as setting boundaries, fault-finding, mixed messages—are almost universal indications of a commitmentphobic problem in general, and are not specifically directed against you.
~ Steven Carter
Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence conservait à notre rencontre le bénéfice d'un événement fortuit. Il était la complicité requise. Celui qui la dévoile la fait disparaître. Je le sais, je n'ai pas le droit de déduire de telles considérations de si faibles indices [...]
~ Erri De Luca
From all indications, the Offutt runway replacement is not a matter of 'if.' It is a matter of 'when.'
~ Jeff Fortenberry
The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the habitual language of a people is a barometer of their intellectual, civil, moral, and spiritual ideals.
~ Grenville Kleiser
If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
~ Michael Pollan