No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.
You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.
His face is so calm, He shows no sign of stress or anything. Its as if he's saying, "No problem. Relax. I'm just going to beat you now. It's not going to hurt a bit. "
I try to just pay attention to what I'm feeling. If something is scary to me, then that's sometimes a good sign - although, sometimes it's not.
The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? Which freaked me out because I was on my way to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.
The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.
Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence
(Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?" "You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right?
I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.
In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils. ' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.
I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up. ' They came to me.
If you don't do what Fear says. . . you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.
We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.