Quotes of Portent - somelinesforyou

“ In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, 'Sorry, we're open.'. ”

- Roseanne Barr

“ Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. ”

- Anatole France

“ The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Aaah... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ It's really is a miracle. ”

- Jerry Lewis

“ Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. ”

- Bible

“ If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean? ”

- Unknown

“ Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural. * HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles. ”

- Helen Schucman

“ Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. ”

- Bible

“ What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love. ”

- Barbara Sher

“ Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? ”

- Laurence Peter

“ If you find someone who makes it their end all and be all of the next two weeks, if they can't focus on anything else then it could continue to (trouble) gambling. There are warning signs and that's something to look at with March Madness. ”

- Emily Watson

“ One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate… ”

- Franz Kafka

“ May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. ”

- Anonymous

“ The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ”

- Peter Conrad

“ There is something in omens. ”

- Ovid

“ Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. ”

- Agnes de Mille

“ If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. ”

- Brigham Young

“ We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ”

- Anatole France

“ I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. ”

- Peggy Cahn

“ A transcendent being can be any miracle. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Don't believe in miracles — depend on them. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness — an open and noble temper. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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