Top 100 The Sign Quotes
#1. From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
Ezra Pound
#2. The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil; call to good and spend in the way of Allah.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#3. Silence took over for a full hour. They drove on. He didn't care anymore. They saw the sign for the next service station twenty minutes after they joined the M5 southbound. He didn't know what they were doing, where they were going."
From 'The Journey' (Banfield Tales)
Michael Braccia
#4. Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.
Christopher Fowler
#5. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - STEVEN WRIGHT
Darynda Jones
#6. Oh, I just think that a neat house is the sign of a boring person, that's all. And I don't really like to associate with boring people if I can help it.
Katie Kacvinsky
#8. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before a game; if it worked, every game would be a tie.
Johan Cruyff
#9. The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.
Edith Wharton
#11. In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.
Robert Gilpin
#12. He had placed the life of every one of his men before his own, and if that wasn't the sign of a truly great leader, then he didn't know what was.
Elaine White
#13. I went down to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours. He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.
Steven Wright
#14. 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
#15. The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.
Frederick Lenz
#16. I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
Loretta Lynn
#17. [L]anguage is not the sign of the idea actually existing in the mind of the speaker - but of that which (s)he desires to convey to the hearer.
Philip Beauchamp
#18. In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
Mikhail Lermontov
#19. The sign at the door was written with a backward R, to make it look Russian, which caused a minor echo of panic. Was it a reference to Merchenko? No, surely Westwood knew the difference between Russia and Ukraine. But were there Ukrainian-themed bars, for a pedantic tormentor?
Lee Child
#20. The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#21. Regan's pulse was astonishing. It hammered at a speed too rapid to gauge. Across the bed, Merrin reached out calmly and with the end of his thumb traced the sign of the cross on Regan's vomit-covered chest. The words of his prayer were swallowed up in the poundings.
William Peter Blatty
#22. Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
Fareed Zakaria
#23. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.
Sherman Alexie
#24. She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
Frederick Lenz
#26. As we approached the forbidding and squalid inn, with the sign of a game-cock above the door, Holmes gave a sudden groan, and clutched me by the shoulder to save himself from falling. He had had one of those violent strains of the ankle which leave a man helpless.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#27. I'll follow, if you give the sign.
Ruth Padel
#29. Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#30. Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.
Philippe Aries
#31. It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Democritus
#32. Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
Randy Owen
#33. What does the sign say?" " 'If you lived here, you'd be home now.' " She clenched her hands with excitement. "See, every day people will drive past and read that sign and think, 'Yeah, if I lived here I'd be home now,' and I will be home. Motherfuckers.
Susanna Kaysen
#34. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!
Jim Morrison
#35. By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#36. No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz.
Primo Levi
#37. If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#38. He made the sign of the cross, clumsily, with a Catholic accent
Arkady Strugatsky
#39. It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
Epictetus
#40. The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.
Richard Webber
#41. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
#42. Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers ... over the sign atop the bleachers ... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!
Mel Allen
#43. Consistency, say some, is the sign of a small mind, but it's a real virtue with high-power technology. Having lots of the same devices out in the field lets us compile a record of experience.
James R. Chiles
#44. In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.
Curnonsky
#45. 2015 - the year of infinity - if you add all the numbers up you get 8 - which on it's side is the sign of infinity - and I think it's going to be one hell of a good year for us.
Jay Woodman
#47. Questions are the sign of an active, intelligent mind, a filter you rinse your ideas through before you make a decision. But sometimes the filter gets clogged and then it becomes a barrier to the truth.
Kate Kerrigan
#48. The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!
Rodney Dangerfield
#49. The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark Skousen
#50. Why did the blonde miss her flight? Because when she read the sign on the road that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home.
Various
#51. I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.
Walt Whitman
#52. Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
Sargent Shriver
#53. I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.
Newt Gingrich
#54. The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
Sun Tzu
#55. I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story.
Graeme Base
#56. 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
#57. [on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the sign of a truly great actor, to be able to maintain that.
Michael Haneke
#58. The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day - but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.
Andrew Murray
#59. advertising 'Discount Sushi'. I can't imagine a better example of Things To Be Wary Of in the food department than bargain sushi. Yet the place had customers. I wonder, had the sign said 'Cheap Sushi' or 'Old Sushi', if they'd still have eaten there.
Anthony Bourdain
#60. 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
#61. Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.
Roger Moore
#62. Humming is the sign of the truly asocial man, for no other sound is at once so soothing and pleasant to its maker and so irritating to any other listener.
Howard McCord
#63. My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.
Vincent Nichols
#64. The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
#65. There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building.
Bill Maher
#66. Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vince Lombardi
#67. What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word - 'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.
Ayn Rand
#68. New Rule: Stop talking about "the gas prices under Obama." As if he's the guy out there changing the numbers on the sign with that long pole. And while they're at the gas station, Republicans who still think human activity doesn't affect air quality should poke their heads in the men's room.
Bill Maher
#69. The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.
Camille Paglia
#70. She had the sea in her blood, and sometimes, if she lay very still at night, with one ear pressed into the mattress, she could even hear the sound of waves.
If that wasn't the sign that the sea was in her blood, what could it be?
Eloisa James
#71. I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.
Iyanla Vanzant
#72. 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.
Thornton Wilder
#74. I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.
Jay London
#76. The sign that you have this virtue is patience, and impatience the sign that you have it not, and you will find that this is indeed so, when I speak to you further concerning this virtue.
Catherine Of Siena
#77. himself, then according to the sign he should be one of those he does not shave. On the other hand,
Mario Livio
#78. To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
Francis Quarles
#79. The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:
Is this a holiday? what! know you not,
Being mechanical, you ought not walk
Upon a labouring day without the sign
Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?
William Shakespeare
#81. She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel's place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.
Nina LaCour
#82. The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#83. Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.
Troy Polamalu
#84. To grasp God in all things
this is the sign of your new birth.
Meister Eckhart
#85. And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.
Desmond Tutu
#86. The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
Roman Jakobson
#87. The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
Jean Cocteau
#88. What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!
Dada Bhagwan
#90. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack
Jeffrey Archer
#91. No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth a wait, because waiting is the sign of true love...
-In Search of a Soulmate.
Swapna Rajput
#92. I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.
Jascha Heifetz
#93. Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.
Toba Beta
#94. Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
Gaston Bachelard
#96. The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.
John Gaddis
#97. I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.
Sarah Dessen
#98. The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.
Anthony Of Padua
#99. The building is an old strip club. The sign reads "Fuzzy Holes." That's a funny name for a club. On the sign below the name is reads "We fired the ugly one. Come on in!
Joseph Zuko
#100. It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.
Mary Elizabeth Clark
