Top 100 Quotes About Signifies
#1. All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
John Arbuthnot
#2. At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
E. M. Forster
#3. It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
Rollo May
#4. Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#5. Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
John Ruskin
#6. The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.
Pablo Neruda
#7. If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
Albert Einstein
#8. Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#9. Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#10. It is only when she turns to close the door that I see a tattoo on the back of her neck, a black-and-white hawk with a red eye. If I didn't feel like my heart had migrated to my throat, I would ask her what it signifies. It must signify something.
Veronica Roth
#11. To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
David Shields
#12. Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.
James Wolcott
#13. The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Isaac Newton
#14. AMENABLE (AME'NABLE) adj.[amesnable, Fr. amener quelqu'un, in the French courts, signifies, to oblige one to appear to answer a charge exhibited against him.]Responsible; subject so as to be liable to enquiries or accounts.
Samuel Johnson
#15. They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
#16. It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.
Johnny Rich
#17. Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.
Margaret Heffernan
#18. Unlike temporal leadership, in which violence and death often proliferate, Christ's rule signifies reunion between predator and prey, malefactors and innocents.
James Mikolajczyk
#19. Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
Vladimir Lenin
#21. I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Salman Rushdie
#22. Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.
Elijah Muhammad
#23. If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx
#24. Growing up signifies a loss. You think you are winning. Really you are losing yourself.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#25. What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
Hannah Arendt
#27. To the modernist, "myth," like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one narrative among many; it is purely subjective, certainly signifying nothing of transcendent or any other kind of importance.
Bradley J. Birzer
#28. Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.
Therese May
#29. The smile is civilization's finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind's coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it is all a matter of appearance. The smile is culture's diploma: it is the diplomat's badge.
Iwan Goll
#30. Crisis - that is, the serious encounter of a man with exactly that which now threatens his own life, with that which represents, signifies, and warns of his own death - is always terrible, wonderful, eventually inescapable, saving and holy.
William Stringfellow
#31. To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran
#32. A miracle signifies nothing more than an event ... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or ... which the narrator is unable to explain.
Baruch Spinoza
#33. For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space." "Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo.
Paulo Freire
#34. This signifies that the presence of God is so smeared or rubbed on you like oil, that His presence is left on you, causing divine excellence and power.
Chris Oyakhilome
#36. To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man's thinking and doing.
Josef Albers
#37. In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain Badiou
#38. This ring is ... irrevocable. I believe in what it signifies. It means forever," he said, overcome with emotion. "I never want to be apart from you.
Nicole Gulla
#39. An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.
Paul Valery
#40. And when a countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing seems to import some action, yet truly it signifies nothing, but the effect, videlicet that water, that was before fluid, is become hard and consistent, without containing any idea of the action whereby it is done.
John Locke
#41. He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
Oscar Wilde
#42. Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
Ram Kapoor
#43. Unnatural silence signifies no good.
Sophocles
#44. Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
Albert Camus
#45. Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
Joyce Carol Oates
#46. The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church.
John Calvin
#47. There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#48. It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
Seneca The Younger
#49. Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire
#51. It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.
John Dewey
#52. The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#53. We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
Elton John
#54. What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.
Albert Hofmann
#55. I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#57. Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.
Shaun White
#58. As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause my ego to say, 'I can do that' really signifies that it's spectacular.
David Alan Basche
#60. In it's highest and purest form, good feng shui signifies perfect alignment between inner and outer worlds.
Lada Ray
#61. The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
Georges Bataille
#62. Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.
Muscles signify strength, not health.
Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.
Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.
Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#63. No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.
Elizabeth Johnston
#64. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.
Pope John Paul II
#65. Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.
David Quammen
#66. The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.
Carl Jung
#67. I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
Bocafloja
#68. Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
Jonathan Swift
#69. I love you", once you say this sentence to a girl, it signifies that you have a responsibility towards her.
Yixing Zhang
#70. Driven living makes us the center of our well-planned schedules. It may stem from a passion to live with eternal purpose, but it signifies that we believe God's work depends on us and neglects to acknowledge that God created us as finite resources dependent upon Him.
Paul Chappell
#71. All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
Saint Augustine
#72. To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
Bill Bryson
#73. Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
Dorothea Dix
#74. Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert Camus
#75. The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.
Watchman Nee
#76. ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty conceptual apparatus, at the other.
Karl Mannheim
#77. The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
Joseph Campbell
#78. The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
Margaret Fuller
#79. The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.
Ulysses S. Grant
#80. Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.
Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
#81. Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
Meryl Streep
#82. The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
Adoniram Judson
#83. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II
#84. MENTOR signifies:
M = Motivator
E = Empowers
N = Nurture
T = Teacher
O = Originator
R = Role model
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#86. One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus
#87. What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?
Roger L'Estrange
#89. Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.
Jenni Schaefer
#91. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Michael Ende
#92. Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
J. Frank Dobie
#94. Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.
Isidore Of Seville
#95. I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.
Richard Ford
#96. I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism
it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win
John Irving
#97. Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.
Thomas Hobbes
#98. Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connections?
Herman Melville
#99. In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.
Frederick Lenz
#100. It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts ...
Thomas Paine
