Signify Quotes
71 Signify quotes by 65 unique authors
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The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.
— Pope Francis
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Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.
— Bret Easton Ellis
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.
— Ezra Pound
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a…
— Rene Descartes
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Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of…
— Jean Genet
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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
— William Shakespeare
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Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.
— Sidney Jourard
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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
— Honore de Balzac
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WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to…
— Bill Vaughan
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It…
— Saul Bellow
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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased…
— Quentin Crisp
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
— Sydney J. Harris
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Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through…
— George Edward Woodberry
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All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
— Abdul Kalam
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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have…
— Aldous Huxley
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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does…
— Charlotte Bronte
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You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify
— Stephen King
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Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
— Zadie Smith
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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign…
— Judith Butler
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