Mark Quotes

2058 quotes by 1549 authors

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. — A B Simpson
Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target. — Eric Butterworth
On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all… — Henry Benedict Stuart
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark. — Audrey Meadows
I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient. — Howard Hodgkin
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. — Lloyd Alexander
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks… — Arthur Miller
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point… — Bliss Carman
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the… — Salvatore Quasimodo
We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won… — Sidney Greenberg
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose… — Catharine Cox Miles
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain,… — J D Hayworth
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than… — Sam Davis
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius. — Lord Chesterfield
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the… — Billy Graham
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out… — Jack Handey
I wish scientists would come up with an ear of corn that was big and round, because then when you were eating it, it'd be… — Jack Handey

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