Sign Quotes - page 4

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. (José Rizal)
Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. (243) View quote
George Carlin
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. View quote
Colin Powell
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Factions are a sign of illness in a party. View quote
Ernest Mandel
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All subsequent movements were latent in them or brought about by them.. ..the two movements cannot be regarded as in opposition to each other, even though they started from opposite points; I maintain [an idea approved by Appolinaire and later by Matisse that they are two extremes of the same sign, tending to coincide at certain points which only the poetic instinct of the painter can discover: 'poetry' being the content and 'raison d'tre' of art. View quote
Gino Severini
This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
The first sign of senility is that a man forgets his theorems, the second sign is that he forgets to zip up, the third sign is that he forgets to zip down. View quote
Paul Erdős
God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't. View quote
Diego Maradona
The surest sign of age is loneliness. (Annie Dillard)
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. View quote
Wilt Chamberlain
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. View quote
Théophile Gautier
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them. View quote
Thom Yorke
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time. View quote
Philo
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. View quote
Paul Ricœur
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. (Sri Aurobindo)
Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. View quote
Emil Cioran
I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said 'pet supplies.' So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said 'compact cars....' View quote
Steven Wright
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary-and not only necessary but urgent-to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate. View quote
Paul Valéry