#signs

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God. ↗

— Catherine McAuley

#clearly #designs #god #guidance #here

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth. ↗

— Marston Morse

#chooses #designs #down #down to earth #earth

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #consumed #defense #designs #divert

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. ↗

— Walker Percy

#alive #another #dead #few #friendly

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#bringing #importance #into #language #new

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

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#designs #exact #exact measure #had #her

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#corners #expect #hold #i #lot

Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#nature

What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf? ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#bbq #humor #signs #wolf #wolves