Mark Quotes

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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.… — Thomas Carlyle
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark… — George Herbert
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of… — George Washington
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame,… — William Cowper
Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after… — Art Buchwald
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as… — Stephen Leacock
We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble. — John Steinbeck
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,… — Philip James Bailey
Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism. — William Strunk, Jr.
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good… — Hesiod
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. — Margaret Fuller
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of… — Ken Robinson
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. — Charles Simmons
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… — Jacob Bronowski
I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone,… — David Hockney
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story… — David Hockney
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and… — Dogen
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. — Pema Chodron

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