Quotes About Sign

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes pains to create, this monotony which is slowly taking over the world, this monotony is the sign of our greatness. It bears the mark of a certain will-power, the will to utility; it is the expression of utility, a law that governs all our modern activity: the Law of Utility.

I'll close on the platypus by stating an alternative theory that I've come up with: the Flying Spaghetti Monster made the platypus because, unlike scientists, He has a sense of humor. It's an unlikely sign from God—and until someone can prove me wrong, that's my theory.

Hey if God will send his angels / And if God will send a sign / And if God will send his angels / Would everything be alright?

Suddenly I realized that mosquitoes were clustering on my neck and arms. Even before I came up here, other boys were complaining about them. How could I not realize we must be near land? So, this is the first sign of Bangkok — mosquitoes, clouds of them. If they were organized, they could carry us to shore one by one.

Duran Duran blared from the car stereo. The woman, two silver bracelets on the hand she dangled out the window, cast a glance in my direction. I could have been a Denny's restaurant sign or a traffic signal, it would have been no different. She was your regular sort of beautiful young woman, I guess. In a TV drama, she'd be the female lead's best friend, the face that appears once in a cafe scene to say, What's the matter? You haven't been yourself lately.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

Yeah, I mean I'm a water sign. I'm a Pisces.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

You have often heard me speak of an oracle or sign which comes to me, and is the divinity which Meletus ridicules in the indictment. This sign I have had ever since I was a child. The sign is a voice which comes to me and always forbids me to do something which I am going to do...

I love that sign," I say. "I love you," Robin says. I feel my cheeks turn the color of the sky. "I love you, too," I say.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise

Pero justo eso constituye el signo distintivo de una voluntad demoníaca, el transformar en realidad lo imposible.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

From the way she seemed to relish the word as it unwound from her lips, I guessed that she rarely used it. It sounded like a mark of esteem, a sign of her intimacy with Arthur, and I was momentarily very jealous of him. I wondered what it might take to get Jane to call me an asshole too.

On my way out of rent-a-car row I saw a sign with an arrow pointing the way to Paradise Road. I thought that everybody needed a sign like that. I wished that it was that easy.

He took Figueroa Lane to Chavez Ravine Place and hit another stop sign. At one time the whole area up here was known only as Chavez Ravine.

Take it easy, Norman. When the psychiatrist goes crazy, it's a bad sign.

The consulting firm that eventually hired him was forever asking him to exhibit confidence when, in his view, confidence was a sign of fraudulence.