Mark Quotes

2058 Mark quotes by 1489 unique authors

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
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. — Thomas A. Edison
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success. — Abdul Kalam
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed… — Luc Sante
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Prejudice marks a mental landmine. — Gloria Steinem
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion;… — Arthur Koestler
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark… — Norman Douglas
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley

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