Common Sign Sayings

#1. For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.

Joe Navarro

#2. She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

Jeannette Walls

#3. Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.

Grace Baruch

#5. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.

Lev Grossman

#6. To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

Stefan Merrill Block

#7. Nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

Hannah More

#8. A man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first.

George R R Martin

#9. Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

Joe Simon

#10. Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

John Matthews

#12. 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.

#13. It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

Charlie Pierce

#14. As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.

Carly Fiorina

#15. Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

Ben Hogan

#16. When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Edward Abbey

#17. I don't feel competition at all. I just feel like I want to be the best. In everything that Michael (Jackson) did, he was the best. When he was dancing, when he was singing, he always wanted to be the best, and that's me ... He's the guideline.

Justin Bieber

#18. In fact, the possibility was so far out of the question, the possibility and the question were on separate continents.

Tessa Dare

#19. Of course George Orwell was not a saint - he could be unfaithful to his wife and suspicious of democracy, for starters - and it's a good thing, too, because saints are always hard to take seriously.

William Giraldi

#20. The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with a dollar sign the way Gene Simmons probably always wanted to.

Rob Sheffield

#21. The public health. I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot machines.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Esther Perel

#23. What kind of monster are you anyway? You should be more humane, Gennady!"
"I was humane when I was alive," said the vampire.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#24. Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.

Bryant McGill

#25. Lewis Alison, a dark, craggy man of more than common height, gave no sign of sharing in the general curiosity. He stayed in his place, seeming to have wrapped himself in a composure not easily disturbed.

Charles Morgan

#26. How do you say what's in your heart if your heart is something you haven't known for years? How do you give yourself completely when all you've done is bury yourself in grief? How do you come back from the dar when it's all you can remember?

T.J. Klune

#27. If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

Giorgio De Chirico

#28. A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.

Jared Leto

#29. A country where God is not honored cannot be truly successful

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