Hallmark Quotes

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  Walter Benjamin

  Information, Language, Function

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Winning, Toss

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the help of heaven to know which of the myriad things we could study we would most wisely learn. We cannot waste time entertaining ourselves when we have the chance to read or to listen to whatever will help us learn what is true and useful. Insatiable curiosity will be our hallmark.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Doors, Heaven, Curiosity

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• Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

  Brian Tracy

  Relationship, Money, Maturity

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• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Jargon, Profession

  Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.

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• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  Yeardley Smith

  Funny Valentines Day, Romantic Love, Romance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

  Aldous Huxley

  Science, Circles, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

  John W. Gardner

  Age, Institutions, Aspiration

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• Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

  Louise Slaughter

  Honesty, Integrity, Government

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• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

  Andre Maurois

  Hands, Style, Definitions

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• Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

  Robert Reich

  Bully, Civilized Society, Civilized Behavior

  "Break the Koch Machine" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2014.

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• Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.410, Penguin

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• "You'd better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as earrings." Jericho snorted. "You know, with imagery like that, you should write for Hallmark."

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Writing, Eye, Blood

  "Dream Warrior". Book by Sherrilyn Kenyon, February 2, 2009.

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• I’ll abide by my word, but you will never win me back! Believe me, in two weeks I will slice open your throat, drink from your blood, and then pierce your heart and laugh while your body explodes into dust. (Zephyra) Beautiful imagery. You should write for Hallmark. (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Believe, Writing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.69, Macmillan

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• It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming. Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance. - Lash

  J.R. Ward

  Revenge, Enemy, Cards

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.371, Penguin

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• If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Sticks, Broke

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.143, Penguin

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• Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Slave, Insolence

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• As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

  Regina Brett

  Thinking, People, Journalism

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• As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.

  Jack Abramoff

  Effort, Lobbyists, Lobbying

  Jack Abramoff (2011). “Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist”, p.86, BookBaby

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• Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

  Rob Sheffield

  Dog, Jobs, Hero

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• I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Blow, Car

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• Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Hard Work, Sleep, Successful

  "Idle breaks" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.

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• You two have to promise to be careful!" Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. "I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb. Could come in handy against the Vespers. It works with knockout gas, so I tossed in a couple of breathing filters." "That's the Cahill equivalent of a Hallmark moment," Dan observed. "A smoke bomb. When you care enough to send the very best–explosives." "I'm not a flowers-and-candy kind of girl," Sinead informed him.

  Gordon Korman

  Girl, Couple, Flower

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake

  Rachel Cohn

  Cupcakes, Names, Illusion

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