Quotes About Sign

The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

Like IHOP," Toby said. "My cousins call it 'dohi,' since that's IHOP upside down. It gets in your head. You'll just see an upside-down dohi sign next time you pass one, trust me.

Our food is a sign of what we've lost in general. I think if we could start slowing down for food, and rebuilding the quality of our plates, we could start rebuilding what we've lost in our culture. As my boss says, culture starts in the kitchen, not in the opera house.

It is a good sign if the wicked hate us. If our foes were godly people, we would have cause for concern, but the hatred of the wicked is better than their love.

Un palais aux murs De vent Un palais dont les tours Sont de flamme au grand jour Un palais d'opale Au cœur du zénith L'oiseau fait d'air pâle Y vole vite Laisse une traînée blanche Dans l'espace noir Son vol dessine un signe Qui signifie absence

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love.

His secretary, who acted as interpreter, was to say, later, that this glance of hatred was the first sign he had given of returning health.

It is a sure sign of a church's internal decay when the sum and substance of its religious activity becomes entwined with political partisanship, especially when loyalty to a political figure is equated with loyalty to God.

It reminded me of what Pollux said once about owls. That when you are approached by an owl, when you don't seek it out but it flies to you or perches on your fence, say, the owl is telling you to prepare yourself. Prepare yourself for what? That sort of warning can drive you crazy. Impossible to know how to avoid something when you don't know what it is.

But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.

If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam's razor. (If everything in the symbolism works as though a sign had meaning, then it has meaning.)

I saw a sign for Book's with an apostrophe in it, and something deep inside me snapped; snapped with that melancholy sound you hear in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, like a far-off cable breaking in a mine-shaft.

In hoc signo vinces

And joy, Grandfather would remind me, joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

My father will sit down and give you theories to explain why he does this or that, the son of the billionaire investor George Soros has said. But I remember seeing it as a kid, and thinking, At least half of this is bull. I mean, you know the reason he changes his position on the market or whatever is because his back starts killing him. He literally goes into a spasm, and it's this early warning sign.

I give no sign. Maybe the reason I decided to behave in this way was that Mother had taught me that you can tell real kings and nobles by the fact that they despise their titles and know full well that true nobility consists in behaving toward the simplest people with humility, like an ordinary human being.

I was born in the year of the Tiger. It was a very bad year to be born, a very good year to be a Tiger.

But now, since you are set among Knights of heavenly adventures, if you were worsted at that tournament it is no marvel. For the tournament was meant for a sign, and the earthly Knights were they who were clothed in black in token of the sins of which they were not yet purged.

joy in prayer is sign of communion with God that shows that God is everything to them.

Just an exit, and here, wonderfully, a young man in an old man's mustache, holding a sign lettered SR. ESS. Less raises his hand, and the man takes his luggage. Inside the sleek black car, Less finds his driver speaks no English. Fantastico, he thinks as he closes his eyes again.

Boredom is actually a crucial warning sign—as important in its own way as physical pain. It's a sign that our capacity for wonder and delight, contemplation and attention, real play and fruitful work, has been dangerously depleted.

In 2008, the Obama yard sign/bumper sticker became a status symbol accessory like a Prius, solar panels on your house, or an adopted Malawian baby.

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

remember that even bad behavior is a sign of healthy development — it signals that your puppy is engaged, focused, and dependent on you.