Signals Quotes - Page 12

• Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

  Jane Rogers

  Lying, Moving, Secret

  Jane Rogers (2012). “The Ice is Singing”, p.35, Canongate Books

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• Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date...

  Allen West

  Decision, President, Today

  "Allen West: Obama's Recognition of Pre-1967 Borders 'Beginning of the End' for Jewish State Read Newsmax Article: Allen West: Obama's Middle East Policy 'Beginning of the End' for Israel | Newsmax.com Urgent: Do you approve of Pres. Trump’s job performance? Vote Here!". www.newsmax.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

  James Q. Wilson

  Broken, Doe, Cost

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute

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• Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, Responsibility, Years

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• And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

  Portia de Rossi

  Food, Kids, Body Weight

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• From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Reality, Perspective, Needs

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• And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?

  Harry Chapin

  Lying, Brave, Finals

  Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Voice, Missing

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• Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Distance, Men, Brave

  Muriel Rukeyser, Janet E. Kaufman, Anne F. Herzog, Jan Heller Levi (2005). “The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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• The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.

  Adrian Slywotzky

  Basketball, Football, Games

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• In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Practice, Want

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• The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

  Garik Israelian

  Tunes, Telescopes, Radio

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• No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

  Storm Constantine

  Psychics, Confusing, Lovers

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• Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Writing, Psychology

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• Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wall, Men, Insecurity

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.100, Spectra

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• Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.

  Plutarch

  Father, Taken, Opportunity

  Plutarch (2004). “The Life of Alexander the Great”, p.6, Modern Library

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• Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Real

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• The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Doors, Connections

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Demand, Safe

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.48, Penguin

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• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

  Antonio Machado

  Running, Dream, Heart

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Valkyrie patted Fletcher’s arm. “Don’t worry,” she said. “If the bad man comes, I’ll protect you.” “If the bad man comes,” Fletcher responded, “I’ll bravely give out a high-pitched scream to distract him. I may even bravely faint, to give him a false sense of security. That will be your signal to strike.” “We make a great team.” “Just don’t forget to stand in front of me the whole time,” he said.

  Derek Landy

  Team, Men, Giving

  Derek Landy (2011). “Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6)”, p.47, HarperCollins UK

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• The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Men, Doctors

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• Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

  Nathaniel Branden

  People, Expectations, Age

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• People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Clever, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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