He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, would blast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public observation, and is afraid of all around him, and much more of all above him.
William Wirt
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.
Norman Mailer
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Max De Pree
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Jimmy Carter
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Max Depree
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Burke, Edmund
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
Are these signs of hope, or do we deceive ourselves by wishing them to be?
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Submission to God's Will is the best companion; wisdom is the noblest heritage; theoretical and practical knowledge are the best signs of distinction; deep thinking will present the clearest picture of every problem.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
The believers have four signs: good humor, tactfulness, kind heartedness and openhandedness.
Jafar ibn Muhammad as-S