Mark Quotes - Page 25

• Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

  William Safire

  Quotation Marks, Quotations

  William Safire, Leonard Safir (1990). “Words of Wisdom”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.

  Bridget Riley

  Squares, Giving, Essentials

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• In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Blood, Hands

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

  Alain Badiou

  Destiny, Encounters, Transition

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Greatness, Dare

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 21, 2011

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• THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

  Terry Brooks

  Real, Wind, Names

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• The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

  James Stuart Stewart

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Letting Go, Strong

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1997). “Pastor to Pastor: Tackling the Problems of Ministry”, p.99, Kregel Publications

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• Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Lonely, Loneliness

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• The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

  Charles Colson

  Christian, People, Leader

  Charles W. Colson (2000). “Chuck Colson Speaks: Twelve Key Messages from Today's Leading Defender of the Christian Faith”

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• There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Bravery

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• Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Home, Heart, Men

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42

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• Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

  David Foster Wallace

  College, Attention, Stuff

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• The snow has left the cottage top;
  The thatch moss grows in brighter green;
  And eaves in quick succession drop,
  Where grinning icicles have been,
  Pit-patting with a pleasant noise
  In tubs set by the cottage door;
  While duck and geese, with happy joys,
  Plunge in the yard pond brimming over.
  The sun peeps through the window pane:
  Which children mark with laughing eye,
  And in the wet street steal again
  To tell each other spring is night.

  John Clare

  Children, Spring, Eye

  John Clare (1827). “The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems”, p.20

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• Every day in every way we are leaving our mark.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Motivation, Leaving, Way

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• What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.

  Helen Eustis

  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

  Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.8, Library of America

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• When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life.

  Dolores Cannon

  Journey, White, Light

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• It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Gentleman, Use

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• The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

  Robert R. Shannon

  Inspirational, Leadership, Emergencies

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• There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

  J.B. Miller

  Leadership, Hurt, Mysterious Things

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• If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.

  Ellen Terry

  Sweet, Art, Lost Love

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap.
  From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

  Big Pun

  Rap, Hip Hop, East

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• Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'

  Dennis McKinsey

  Biblical, Men, Two

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• They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there. You're less likely to find it on network prime-time series, but the creep is moving in that direction. It has become intrusive and overwhelming to us as a union of writers.

  Patric Verrone

  Moving, Reality, Unions

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