Quotes with signs

  • A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
  • Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
  • Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
  • When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
  • The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
  • All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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  • Assata Shakur People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Otto von Bismarck A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
    Otto von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Philo of Alexandria Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Bob Dylan Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
    That can do what's never been done,
    That can win what's never been won
    Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Denis Diderot All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Caroline Knapp Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • V. N. Volosinov Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides with the domain of signs. They equate with one another. Wherever a sign is present, ideology is present, too. Everything ideological possesses semiotic value.
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  • V. N. Volosinov Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bobby Heenan Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bill Engvall I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say "I'm Stupid". That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.
    His explanation for the signs. Heres Your Sign
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Marley Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Anthony Hecht Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Virginia Woolf One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • C. L. R. James One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Pauline Kael One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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