Mark Quotes
2058 quotes by 1549 authors
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Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands…
— Heinrich von Treitschke
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
— Eric Temple Bell
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The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what…
— W. W. Sawyer
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Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky,…
— Tahereh Mafi
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Every year at this time, an important phrase marks the season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's so common we sometimes forget about…
— Dennis Kucinich
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One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge…
— William F. Lynch
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Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
— Juan Goytisolo
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How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the…
— Wayne LaPierre
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Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is…
— C.D. Wright
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The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of…
— K.P. Yohannan
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Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does…
— Tom Wells
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Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of…
— Lester Bowie
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Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.
— Dagobert D. Runes
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The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable…
— Edmund Clowney
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And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did…
— Tahereh Mafi
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Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true.…
— Karen Kain
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Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.
— Nia Vardalos
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A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might…
— Galen Beckett
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I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the…
— Paul Halmos
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
— Sydney J. Harris
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