Marks Quotes
550 quotes by 472 authors
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
— Ugo Betti
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek…
— Steven Biko
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms...…
— Sandra Bullock
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control…
— Lord Byron
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To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
— William Arthur Ward
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific…
— David Lack
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
— Isaac Newton
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life…
— Oswald Chambers
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The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking…
— Kurt Lewin
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys…
— Pliny the Elder
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I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of…
— Evgeni Plushenko
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Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,…
— Olive Schreiner
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Time marks us while we are marking time.
— Theodore Roethke
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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love…
— Dianne Feinstein
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Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...
— Bertrand Russell
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
— Thorstein Veblen
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
— Bill Vaughan
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Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could…
— Paul de Man
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