Signify Quotes

71 Signify quotes by 65 unique authors

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin. — Pope Francis
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
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
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
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion. — Ezra Pound
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
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
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind. — William Shakespeare
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
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. — Honore de Balzac
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
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
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
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
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
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. — Abdul Kalam
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
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does… — Charlotte Bronte
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
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible. — Augusto Roa Bastos
We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify. — Jeanette Winterson
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
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
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
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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