Mark Quotes
2058 quotes by 1549 authors
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Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.
— Shreya Ghoshal
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I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it. This is because…
— Khaled Mashal
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A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.
— Jenny Holzer
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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If…
— Robin Morgan
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep…
— Noah Porter
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a…
— Burl Ives
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For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
— Alfred Stieglitz
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In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,…
— Edward Abbey
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
— Edward Abbey
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on…
— Edward Abbey
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even…
— Edward Abbey
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As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
— Edward Abbey
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Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a…
— Kingsley Amis
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The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
— Henry Fielding
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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
— Chinua Achebe
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Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis…
— David Shields
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Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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