Quotes about sign
A collection of quotes on the topic of sign, use, people, doing.
Quotes about sign

Mr. Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry (1924)

Source: Song No Role Modelz

1920s, Zweites Buch (1928)
Source: Mein Kampf
Context: Jewry is a Folk with a racial core that is not wholly unitary. Nevertheless, as a Folk, it has special intrinsic characteristics which separate it from all other Folks living on the globe. Jewry is not a religious community, but the religious bond between Jews; rather is in reality the momentary governmental system of the Jewish Folk. The Jew has never had a territorially bounded State of his own in the manner of Aryan States. Nevertheless, his religious community is a real State, since it guarantees the preservation, the increase and the future of the Jewish Folk. But this is solely the task of the State. That the Jewish State is subject to no territorial limitation, as is the case with Aryan States, is connected with the character of the Jewish Folk, which is lacking in the productive forces for the construction and preservation of its own territorial State.

“Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.”
Litterae autem sunt indices rerum, signa verborum, quibus tanta vis est, ut nobis dicta absentium sine voce loquantur. Verba enim per oculos non per aures introducunt.
Bk. 1, ch. 3, sect. 1; p. 96.
Etymologiae

“In this sign thou shalt conquer”
As recorded in the Life of Emperor Constantine [De vita Imperatoris Constantini] by Eusebius
Context: ""In this sign thou shalt conquer"" or ""In this sign you will conquer"", often rendered in its Latinized form: In hoc signo vinces; this motto is said to have been adopted by Constantine after his vision of a Chi Rho sign in the heavens just before his decisive battle with Maxentius, A. D. 312

September 30, 1974. South Bend, IN. Notre Dame Ath Center.
Source: http://www.elvisconcerts.com/real/oct74-01.htm
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZpSFnDxRg

“If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.”
As quoted in Details (1992-02).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”

about his work as a particle physicist, at the Fermilab History and Archives Project: Benjamin Lee comments on HEP discoveries http://history.fnal.gov/significant_staff.html#Benjamin_Lee (May, 1976).

“I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.”
Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2003/n09262003_200309266.html

"Charles Dickens" (1939)
Charles Dickens (1939)

On moving to the Unitied States, as quoted in "Seal: Still Crazy After All These Years" by Fiona Sturges in The Independent (11 October 2003)

“Miracles, signs, wonders, deliverance and healing cannot be exchanged with money.”
Speaking during his 2014 Colombia Crusade - "TB Joshua Lights Up Colombia, Fills Olympic Stadium" http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-religion-byo-50760.html Bulawayo 24, Zimbabwe (July 17 2014)

So I understood that if a ship crosses the sea without a purpose, it will arrive at no port. What prevents life from devouring us is having a purpose. The higher it is, the further it will carry us...
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Allegories of the Sacred Laws (Legum allegoriae), Book I, §2; tr. C. D. Yonge, The works of Philo Judaeus (1854), Vol. 1, pp. 52–53.

Conversation with Jean Martet (1 June 1928), Ch. 30
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)

Date unknown, but believed to be 1992-06-30 in Sweden http://www.livenirvana.com/official/index.html.
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

“I'm in the fourth row, signing autographs at your show.”
"Cum On Everybody" (Track 13).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)

“Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 164

“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.”
In 'The Observer' (London), 'Sayings of the Week'

Interview with WWE.com (October 2005).

Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison
Context: I have never visited Russia and my knowledge of it consists only of what can be learned by reading books and newspapers. Even if I had the power, I would not wish to interfere in Soviet domestic affairs: I would not condemn Stalin and his associates merely for their barbaric and undemocratic methods. It is quite possible that, even with the best intentions, they could not have acted otherwise under the conditions prevailing there.
But on the other hand it was of the utmost importance to me that people in western Europe should see the Soviet regime for what it really was. Since 1930 I had seen little evidence that the USSR was progressing towards anything that one could truly call Socialism. On the contrary, I was struck by clear signs of its transformation into a hierarchical society, in which the rulers have no more reason to give up their power than any other ruling class. Moreover, the workers and intelligentsia in a country like England cannot understand that the USSR of today is altogether different from what it was in 1917. It is partly that they do not want to understand (i. e. they want to believe that, somewhere, a really Socialist country does actually exist), and partly that, being accustomed to comparative freedom and moderation in public life, totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible to them.

1963 interview, used in The Century of the Self (2002)
Context: My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to cure ourselves of it constantly and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call "happiness." There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.

So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.
As quoted in the New York Times Magazine (11 September 1994).
Impact interview (2020)

Presidency (1977–1981), 1977

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”
Source: Browning's Paracelsus: Being the Text of Browning's Poem

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Source: The Walk

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
For the people who know the Bible and Tradition and the complete history of humanity, Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God and that is why the Northern peoples, eaten up with sadness, come and visit the Latin countries.
Source: Though often attributed to Chardin, it is found in Letters to His Fiancée (1937), by Léon Bloy, p. 57.

Source: Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges

“Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.”
Source: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
Source: The Prophecy Answer Book

“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”

“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health…”
Variant: Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Variant: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Source: Reaper Man



“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

Source: Aesthetics and Politics
“I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.”
Source: Embrace the Night

“It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.”

Source: The Crucible (1953)
Context: Danforth: Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free?
Proctor: I mean to deny nothing!
Danforth: Then explain to me, Mr. Proctor, why you will not let —
Proctor: [With the cry of his whole soul] Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

“for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”

“Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.”
Source: Opium: The Diary of His Cure

Regarding stopgap measures for the federal budget, White House press conference (11 July 2011) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/11/press-conference-president
2011, Remarks on the economy (July 2011)

Source: Regards sur le monde actuel [Reflections on the World Today] (1931), pp. 158-159

Statements at trial http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transcript_of_the_closed_trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C5%9Fescu (25 December 1989)

Bible Teaching and Religious Practice http://books.google.com/books?id=sujuHO_fvJgC&pg=PA568&dq=twain+%22Bible+Teaching+and+Religious+Practice%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=twain%20%22Bible%20Teaching%20and%20Religious%20Practice%22&f=false.
"Bible Teaching and Religious Practice" (1923)

2008, A More Perfect Union (March 2008)

"Lonestar", Come Away with Me (2002)
Song lyrics

2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most

Quote in Titian's letter to his friend Pietro Aretino in Venice, sent from Augsburg, 11 Nov. 1550, the original is in Lettere a P. Aretino' u.s. i. p. 147; as cited in Titian: his life and times - With some account of his family... Vol. 2. J. A. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle, Publisher London, John Murray, 1877, p. 198
1541-1576

Regarding his friend Hollywood astrologer Carroll Righter, in Where's the Rest of Me? (1965)
1960s

On the song "Yesterday", written by Paul McCartney
Playboy interview (1980)