Mark Quotes
2058 Mark quotes by 1489 unique authors
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen…
— Thomas Hardy
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And…
— Ray Bradbury
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
— Terry Goodkind
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I like you very much. Just as you are." Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones
— Helen Fielding
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So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have…
— Epictetus
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Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely…
— David Foster Wallace
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Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears…
— Pope John XXIII
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
— Andy Warhol
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There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.…
— Mortimer Adler
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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face,…
— Stephen King
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It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the…
— Chinua Achebe
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Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.
— Kij Johnson
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What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave...
— David Gemmell
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Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where…
— Arthur Golden
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The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against…
— Samuel Adams
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She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.
— Julian Barnes
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
— Stephen Covey
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For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation…
— Barack Obama
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If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense,…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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