Mark Quotes
2058 quotes by 1549 authors
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The Master said, “To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from…
— Confucius
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Come on! Don't hold back," Christian said. "I'm not, " Lissa protested. "You are too! I've seen you knock on a door harder than you're…
— Richelle Mead
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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he…
— C.S. Lewis
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One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his…
— James A. Baldwin
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Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and…
— George MacDonald
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It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if…
— Zadie Smith
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She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map…
— Cassandra Clare
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The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed…
— David Levithan
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What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human!
— Charles M. Schulz
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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
— Holly Black
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No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object…
— Virginia Woolf
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During the fire: 'Some of the drunker ones don't move. Some of them laugh. One person says, "Where's the marshmallows?" Mark slaps him across the…
— Pittacus Lore
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I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers…
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom…
— Judith McNaught
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing…
— Holly Black
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Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min…
— Toni Morrison
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