Mark Quotes

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My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin… — Elwyn Brooks White
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,… — Ronald Reagan
I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him. At the end of the day we've got to… — Gary Neville
When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas' — Paul Merson
One mark of good verse is surprise — John Betjeman
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. — James A. Baldwin
When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for… — Matthew Bellamy
Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question… — Tim Parks
A thunder-storm!â€”the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around… — Robert Montgomery
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of… — Alberto Manguel
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty… — Ann Coulter
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go.… — Nhat Hanh
Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal… — Stephen Mansfield
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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