#indication

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#certain #certain kinds #differences #different #different kind

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#any #because #explicit #first #first time

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ↗

— Charles Ives

#nearness #perfect #times #truth #vagueness

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#because #being #bill #bill clinton #chance

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#bow #culture #equally #find #gods

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#christianity #gods #jealousy #religion #romans

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #education #great #great service #indication

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bring #disagree #equality #fundamentalist #herself

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing. ↗

— Karl Urban

#choices #engaging #find #good #how