Margin Quotes
137 quotes by 120 authors
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It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond…
— May Sarton
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Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract…
— Fernando Pessoa
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent…
— George Eliot
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it…
— Neil Gaiman
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The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater…
— Tom Robbins
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I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
— Steig Larsson
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The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to…
— Hilary Mantel
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My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning…
— Darynda Jones
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I love the broad margin to my life.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won…
— Roger Bannister
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Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas…
— Elliott Abrams
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The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly,…
— Margaret Geller
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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge…
— Clayton M. Christensen
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I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from…
— Hassan Rouhani
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Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this…
— Wadah Khanfar
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The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of error is so…
— Hugh Douglas
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When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster…
— Anthony Fauci
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My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
— Gerard Depardieu
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While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin…
— Richard Ben-Veniste
Who Wrote These Margin Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 137 Margin Quotes, led by these top contributors: