#signify

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#ceased #constitute #hostility #means #must

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? ↗

— George Villiers

#devil #does #except #fine #plot

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#different #different things #getting #giving #information

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#common #directly #inorganic #life #may

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #god #govern #hearts #i

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else. ↗

— Samuel Rogers

#find #marries #morning #much #next

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#appreciation #because #fixed #himself #man

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#man #refusal #signify #words #world