Quotation Explorer - 'Sign'

Blindly believing something often comes from societal conformity which is a sign of a lack of deep knowledge and imaginative consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
Life is Like one of those Planets with No Sign of Life till LOVE for Him Appears within . - Ashok Khurana
Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate. - Debasish Mridha
I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain. - Alyxandria Harvey
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'. - Margaret Thatcher
Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity,Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom. - Wordions
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
Never underestimate the power of a scented candle!" declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia! - Alice Pung
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. - Georges Bernanos
Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones. - Scott B. Pruden
Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence. - Marty Rubin
Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over. - Auliq Ice
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. - Junot Diaz
... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh. - Andrés Neuman
I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength. People can be killed for poetry here—a sign of unparalleled respect—because they are still capable of living by it. - Osip Mandelstam
A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile. - Debasish Mridha
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. - Mark Skousen
A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought. - Diane Grifith
Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way - Constance Friday
�You swore this deal would be a safe little exchange. I didn�’t sign up for this�—Chinese mafia and Hashishins. I�’m an MD, not special ops.�Kira Hardy in Dawn of a Dark Knight - Zoe Forward
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. - Spanish Proverb
The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength. - Matthew Donnelly
A Relationship Should Come With An ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK Sign. - Cyc Jouzy
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. - Junot Díaz
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on - Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world. - Solange nicole
Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women. - He Zhen
I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time. - Sanober Khan
Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence. - Debasish Mridha
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. - Ambrose Bierce
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. - Roberto Benigni
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. - Lesslie Newbigin
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. - Colette
Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death. - Debasish Mridha
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872) - Victor Hugo
Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship. - Pratik Akkawar
It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. - Walter Winchell
A leader is a lamp not just a sign board. - Debasish Mridha
If we are discouraged because we lack repentance and excuse ourselves by saying that it does not lie in our power to obtain a contrite heart, because repentance can only be granted as a miracle of the Holy Spirit, it is a sign that our thinking has been clouded by the Enemy. - M. Basilea Schlink
The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les. - Steven Wright
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Your desire for increase is a sign that we are alive - Sunday Adelaja
It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy. - Jan Kaplicky
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. - Charlotte Brontë
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear. - Alan Cohen
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life could have been way easier if we can just use "Please, do not disturb" sign in our social lives! - Mohsen Sheha
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one. - Ashly Lorenzana
Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom. - Eraldo Banovac
If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do. - Steven Pressfield
All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- AS IS. It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me AS IS and I’ll take you that way, too. - Steve Goodier
Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves. - A.M. Sawyer
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson
There's Light At The End of Every Tunnel. So Keep Moving If You Get A Sign of HOPE. You Never Know, That Might Be The Last Chance You'll Get To See The Shiny Day. Never Give Up, Just Follow Your Dreams.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer. - Adam Sisman
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash
OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens. - Ambrose Bierce
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. - Alain de Botton
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world. - Stanley Hauerwas
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign. - William Cowper
Being happy at others cost...not a sign of humanity. - Adil Adam Memon
Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality. - Charlie Brooker
I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is... - Frank O'Hara
If you put a money sign in front of your eyes, how will you see the world? - Debasish Mridha
I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter. - Sara Sheridan
Depression is a sign of strength because it means no matter how weak your mind might be to you, your heart is still strong enough to feel. - Emma Hart
All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication. - Peter Gärdenfors
Desperation is not an evidence of hard work, it's a sign of lack of faith - Constance Friday
Opinion: a sign of ignorance. - Marty Rubin
Your refusal to forgive one who has sinned against you us a manifestation of hypocrisy - a telltale sign that either you have not experenced God's forgiving grace, or that you take such grace for granted. - Joe Thorn
Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
For the worst sign of all--as I must have it for you-- is that you can't help me. That's when a woman pities. - Henry James
Generosity is not only giving but also a sign of caring. - Debasish Mridha
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible! - William Shakespeare
People who don't exercise their freedom of voting (choosing their leaders) are irresponsible. Such people have no right to complain or want more than what they are receiving from the government. Intentional failure to vote is cowardly, irresponsible and a sign of ignorance. - Allan Amanyire
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. - James Bridie
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his.
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. - H. L. Mencken
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. - Woody Allen
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking. - Jim Butcher
My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will. - Gregory of Nyssa
A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness (...) - Terry Hayes
It's hard to imagine a more biblical definition of devil worship than an exaltation of the self, an exaltation of the ego, and a tearing down of that countercultural sign of the cross," Moore argued. This pride doing things our way instead of following God's plan - Russell D. Moore
In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign. - Ted Hughes
Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it. - Marty Rubin
Struggling isn't a sign of failure but of strength. Keep pushing, keep striving...your best is yet to come! - Kemi Sogunle
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. - Ambrose Bierce
A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it’s just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what’s theirs. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson. - Raphael Zernoff
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there. - Timothy J. Keller
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. - Tim Wise
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. - Bette Davis
If someone is Jealous of you, That's a good sign! Keep up the good work. - Mohith Agadi
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. - C.S. Lewis
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. - Mitch Hedberg
A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one - Priyansh Shah
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. - Billy Graham
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. - Tim Wise
A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clémenceau
The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out. - Eve Marie Mont
Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance. - April Mae Monterrosa
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. - William Ernest Hocking
When old people talk too much in presence of younger persons, they wouldn't know when their value would be diminishing.Talk less especially when a younger person is in your midst, it's a sign of dignity - OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire. - Will Durant
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. - Mark Twain
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. - Dejan Stojanovic
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance. - Marty Rubin
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers. - William Strunk Jr.
I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated. - Joss Whedon
(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."- (Every Day) - David Levithan
Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement. - Ana Hart
It was a sign of how worried and confused I was that I wasn’t completely distracted by the sight of his powerful thighs flexed in front of me. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end. - Michael Bassey Johnson
...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey - V.S. Naipaul
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. - Theodore Roosevelt
If you are strong enough to face Fear of Failure, Fear of Rejections, and Fear of Criticism, that's the sign of Success. - Sivaprakash Sidhu
There, amongst the angry water was the glow of green eyes, hundreds of them encompassed the entire area...We were completely and totally surrounded. They all hung just below the water waiting for a sign to attack. There was no hope. We would all perish... - Meredith T. Taylor
Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom. - Eraldo Banovac
If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT. - M. Kirin
I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without fur. With just one sign, I thought I was able to make them rise up outside their refuges... - Roger Vitrac
Fear is a sign to prepare yourself, not to stop. - Eric Valli
Sharing is an inherent sign of growth. - Debasish Mridha
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. - Eric Hoffer
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein
Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health. - Marty Rubin
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. - Reverend Edward A. Malloy
Beauty is a sign of intelligence. - Andy Warhol
What you endured was a sign of what you would become. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive. - Elbert Hubbard
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter
It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.al-Futûhât al-Makkiyya - Ibn Arabi
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha. - Deepak Chopra
Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year. - Ellen Willis
HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits. Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- "Hypochondriasis." It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy - Ambrose Bierce
Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he. - Arthur Conan Doyle
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes
They say that facing oneself is the sign of a zany man, but facing this flabby belly requires a lot of courage.
If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else. - Miya Yamanouchi
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. - Dave Barry
The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't. - Luke Myer
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. - Confucius
if someone gets jealous from you,that the sign of your progress - jassi
The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others. - Omar Suleiman
Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't. - Nick Hornby
Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent - Anthony Steyning
The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision. - Debasish Mridha
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal
There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah can trust. He can contact these people without first waiting for a sign. - Vasily Grossman
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign. - George W. Bush
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. - Karl R. Popper
Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. - Amit Ray
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. - Tom Robbins
At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity. - Thomas E. Reynolds
When someone tries to make you happy, that is a true sign of love. - Debasish Mridha
A dead plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one - Priyansh Shah
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now. - Matthew V. Lewis
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - Charles Du Bos
You say how much I love you, "I never let my mind interfere when I'm with you", isn't it enough sign of how much I trust and love you...my dear! - Ramana Pemmaraju
It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. - J. K. Rowling
The sign of a true Guardian is to guide a child with integrity and to leave the student with the wisdom of choice. - Peter SMith Talking Cures
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. - Daniel J. Boorstin
For me to forgive my ex, he would have to sign a marriage contract with his tears and seal it with his blood. - Natalya Vorobyova
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. - Fish
Suddenly, the double doors of the parlor whooshed open. A large fleshy woman stood before me in full regalia. Her eyes were all made up, earrings and bracelets jangling. The sign in the window said Miss Sadie was a medium. From the look of her, I'd say that was a bit wishful. - Clare Vanderpool
Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again, history belongs at the family table. If theology, the older brother, pretends not to need or notice him it will be a sign that he has forgotten, after all, who his father is. - N.T. Wright
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? - Robert Louis Stevenson
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. - Earl Wilson
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. - Eugene Ionesco
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. - Friedrich Nietzsche
SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents. - Ambrose Bierce
Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity. - Bias
Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it. - John Piper
The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power. - A.E. Samaan
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store... - Alice Munro
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith. - Alan Aldridge
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. - Seneca
I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood" and my first thought was "Who was Firewood and what did he do?'
The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign. - Iimani David
It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art. - Hermann Bahr
FYI, women think glasses are a sign of brains, and also, they're sexy. - Jill Shavis
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. - Anatole France
Date a girl who travels they said, but please, know that you will never tame her nor keep her. Because she’ll never sign her letters off with a your truly - but always with a see you when I see you - lauren klarfeld
...and said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of a reach. I was waiting for the smallest sign that you could love me... I never got it.' --Laertes, Count of Samothrace - Rebecca Ashe
Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion. - Jim George
If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing. - Sameh Elsayed
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. - Gordon B. Hinckley
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. - Craig Ferguson
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. - Publilius Syrus
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