Quotes About Sign

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I don't want to deny myself the pleasure of bodily involvement in my work, for that pleasure seems to me to be the sign of an indispensable integrity.

Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security. We

I said. I was silently horrified. What was wrong with these people? Peter had started sporting a beret—another bad sign.

Nihil cavum neque sine signo apud Deum.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

So there I am, wondering what to do, and I see you, and I see what you're carrying. And _that_ is why I came running after you. Because I do not believe in coincidence.

Solutions-focused therapists learn to focus their patients on the first hints of the miracle—"What's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think the problem was gone"—because they want to avoid answers that are overly grand and unattainable:

Suppose that you go to bed tonight and sleep well. Sometime, in the middle of the night, while you are sleeping, a miracle happens and all the troubles that brought you here are resolved. When you wake up in the morning, what's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think, 'Well, something must have happened—the problem is gone!'?

Can I ask you a sort of strange question? Suppose that you go to bed tonight and sleep well. Sometime, in the middle of the night, while you are sleeping, a miracle happens and all the troubles that brought you here are resolved. When you wake up in the morning, what's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think, 'Well, something must have happened—the problem is gone!'?

What's the difference between a strike day and a normal day at an Italian post office? On a strike day they put a sign out front to explain why no one's working.

If your mate is not overall 51 percent valuable, you cannot stay with them and remain healthy. Being in a toxic relationship may be a sign of unconditional love, but it's also a sign that you love them more than yourself. That is a sign of mental illness.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Christmastide - 1830-1894 Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine; Worship we our Jesus: But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token, Love be yours and love be mine, Love to God and all men, Love for plea and gift and sign.

Si un divorce est la fin d'un mariage en tant qu'institution. Il n'a pas été créé pour détruire le mariage puisqu'il ne serait pas nécessaire si le mariage n'existait pas. En ce sens, comme bien des auteurs l'ont montré, même la fréquence des divorces peut être interprétée non comme un signe que l'institution du mariage est malade, mais au contraire comme un signe qu'elle est florissante. (p. 122)

Saint Simeon once said that tears are a sign of the Holy Spirit's presence.

That was the moment. Until a minute ago I was so terrifying I was all that existed. But then she had forgotten me. Only for a fraction of a second, but it was enough. The forgetting was delightful because it was a sign that the hawk was starting to accept me. But there was a deeper, darker thrill. It was that I had been forgotten.

Somewhere along the way I came upon a mews with a small sign on the entrance gate addressed to the passing world. The sign orders flatly: COMMIT NO NUISANCE The more you stare at that, the more territory it covers. From dirtying the streets to housebreaking to invading Viet Nam, that covers all the territory there is.

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.

The sea looked as if it had been licked clean, blue and clear and smooth, and there were a few woolly little clouds in the sky. Legend said that these clouds were sheep who had simply wandered over the cliff tops one day, special sheep who now went on grazing in the sky and were never shorn. In any case, they were a good sign.

If Muhammad weren't standing lonely vigil on the mountain, you might say that there was no sign of anything unusual about him.

When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.