Hallmark Quotes - Page 2

• The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets and to an increasingly asset-dependent global economy.

  Stephen S. Roach

  Discipline, World, Financial

  Stephen S. Roach (2010). “Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization”, p.28, John Wiley & Sons

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• Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.

  Harry Kalven

  Stars, Government, Criticism

  Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins

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• Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Healthy, Growth, Cost

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• The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Insecurity, Bravado

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.195, Macmillan

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• The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

  Douglas Coupland

  Unique, Different, Today

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• It was moving, but so absurd that I nearly laughed out loud. I imagined a new line of Hallmark cards: "Thank you for not killing my boyfriend, even if it risks killing you.

  Hilary Duff

  Moving, My Boyfriend, Risk

  Hilary Duff (2011). “Devoted”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Responsibility, Decision, Valleys

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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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• What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

  Susan Orlean

  Ideas, Use, Juniors

  "Miss Popularity" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2011.

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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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• We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, America, Long

  "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2009.

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• The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Believe, Quality, Belief

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• Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Consistency

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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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• Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Simplicity, Belief

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

  Wilhelm Reich

  Slave, Insolence

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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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