Mark Quotes

2058 Mark quotes by 1489 unique authors

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living. — Zadie Smith
The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with… — Fulton J. Sheen
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too.… — John Green
All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI—at this point he could play the Craigslist Killer and people would be like, 'Oh… — Mindy Kaling
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the… — Ann Voskamp
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and… — A. S. Byatt
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but… — Paulo Coelho
Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather… — Holly Black
When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall,… — Daphne du Maurier
Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of… — Michael Chabon
Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big… — E E Cummings
When she set Shane’s glass of Coke down in front of him, she did it with probably a little too much emphasis; he glanced up… — Rachel Caine
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm. — Carl Hiaasen
Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness. — Deepak Chopra
There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as… — David Rakoff
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that… — John Green
The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the… — Lawrence Durrell
In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the… — Cassandra Clare
I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far… — Cassandra Clare
Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this,… — Brandon Mull
He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added. — Brandon Mull
In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed… — Lynne Truss
With the whole Mark of Cain thing, does that mean if I accidentally kick you during the night, I get kicked in the shins seven… — Cassandra Clare

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