Mark Quotes - Page 21

• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Quotation Marks, Upside Down, Ends

  12 Copy quote

• A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.

  Galen Beckett

  Men, Luck, World

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.76, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

  Paul Halmos

  Profession, Drudgery

  "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

  Ben Horowitz

  4 Copy quote

• We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Art, Desire, Movement

  8 Copy quote

• O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.

  Anne Desclos

  Moving, Kinky, Body

  11 Copy quote

• I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as a sphere of intense light that marks the point of my origin. It is the permanent part of me, of which I am very aware, and the point to which I will return at the conclusion of this life.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Life, Real, Light

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet (2003). “Inner Perspectives: A Guidebook for the Spiritual Journey”, p.19, Summit University Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

  Bill Bonner

  Long, Delayed Gratification, Term

  Bill Bonner (2012). “Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever say, 'My house shall be called a house of music'? Of course not. The Bible does say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'. Preaching, music, the reading of the Word - these things are fine; I believe in and practice all of them. But they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling. the honest truth is that I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Real, Believe

  59 Copy quote

• I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am. And I have failed. And If I have failed you in the process, I am truly sorry.

  Cesare Borgia

  Sorry, Father, Cain

  70 Copy quote

• I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric — it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career.

  Jens Voigt

  Careers, Energy, Lasts

  15 Copy quote

• To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

  Marya Mannes

  Ethics, Morality, Indifference

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mistake, Errors, Hands

  Thorstein Veblen (1965). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

  Aesop

  Wine, Vintage, Spirituality

  11 Copy quote

• Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Pieces

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

  6 Copy quote

• Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Long, Stupidity

  6 Copy quote

• The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

  Aesop

  Cat

  19 Copy quote

• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

  Louis MacNeice

  Cat, Grace, Tails

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

  Paul de Man

  Desire, Wipe, Departure

  7 Copy quote

• No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

  Corra May Harris

  Inspirational, Tombstone, Dollars

  4 Copy quote

• It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Truth, Mind

  "Time to rise to the challenge of social impact measurement" by Jeremy Nicholls, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2013.

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

  Frank A. Clark

  Christian, Sorry, Feelings

  32 Copy quote

• Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Aug 05, 2011

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Drawing, Differences

  Calvin Tomkins, Roy Lichtenstein (1988). “Roy Lichtenstein: mural with blue brushstroke”, ABRAMS

  41 Copy quote

  Show source