Signals Quotes - Page 13

• A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

  Jean Vanier

  Grace, Difficulty, Tension

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.121, Paulist Press

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• When you smile at people, its a signal to what you are bringing to their life.

  Sean Stephenson

  People

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• Mr. Green Sweater looks normal, but his wingman looks hard-core bad boy,” said Vee. “Emits a certain don’t-mess-with-me signal. Tell me he doesn’t look like Dracula’s spawn. Tell me I’m imagining things.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Boys, Sweaters, Looks

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Giving, Tiny

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

  George Washington

  Gratitude, Return, Peculiar

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1778). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him.

  Mary Renault

  Eye, Blue, Games

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• Amen" Lula said and she made the sign of the cross. "I thought you were Baptist." "Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this.

  Janet Evanovich

  Hands, Baptists, Crosses

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.715, Macmillan

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• The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.

  Leon Panetta

  Military, Law, Issues

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• The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Waiting, Soul, Hovering

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1910). “The Inner Beauty”

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• They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

  Neal Stephenson

  Soul, Ironic, Young

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.

  Lynne Truss

  Friday, Writing, Average

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• On the other hand, she never looked as -big- as she did at that moment. "What?" Rose demanded, glaring up at him. The warning signal flashed bright red in Kane's head. Telling a woman she was as big as a beach ball wouldn't win any points. How did one describe how she looked? A basketball? Volleyball? He studied her furious little face. Yeah. He was in big trouble no matter what he said. Description was out of the question. He needed diplomacy, something that flew out of the window when he was near her and she said the words like contractions.

  Christine Feehan

  Basketball, Volleyball, Beach

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• I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

  Rachel Cohn

  Morse Code, Given, Dyslexic

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.36, Egmont UK

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• All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Energy, World, Radio

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show", www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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• And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

  Rick Riordan

  Phones, Cells, Here I Am

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.984, Penguin UK

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• Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal...

  Hans Reichenbach

  Unique, Order, Departure

  "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.

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• The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions... let's call them Action Signals.

  Tony Robbins

  Negative, Action, Emotion

  "Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!". Book by Tony Robbins, 1991.

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• A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Simple, People

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

  Michael Moss

  Children, Character, Vegetables

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• The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Senior, Boss, Promise

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, House, Forever

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• The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Sports, Past, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn't hear the delay, although sometimes you did.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Long, Track, Delay

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sweet, Exercise, Cocktails

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Stress, Self, Belief

  "Cognitive Therapy of Depression". Book by Aaron T. Beck, 1978.

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