Mark Quotes
2058 quotes by 1549 authors
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We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.
— Dick Butkus
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off…
— Raymond Chandler
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The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.
— Daniel Pearce
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
— Peter Singer
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Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell…
— Richard P. Bland
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A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages…
— Robert Pattinson
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
— Neil Postman
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like…
— Lewis Thomas
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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius,…
— Aristotle
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Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
— Norman Mailer
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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is…
— Bergen Evans
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Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.
— Eric Partridge
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A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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