Mark Quotes - Page 25

• A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Stronger, Separation, Formal

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• The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the Žfirst time has broken down. A new unity, however, has not yet emerged. We stand in this transitional period, this ‘interregnum’ which leaves its mark on every spiritual activity. The Conservative Revolution is conditioned by it, and at the same time sees itself as an attempt to overcome it.

  Armin Mohler

  Spiritual, Broken, Unity

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.

  Marchette Chute

  Christian, War, Adventure

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• There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reality, Knowing Who You Are, Quotation Marks

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• He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Effort, Harmony

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• As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Moving, Return

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• I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

  Sophocles

  Winning, Missing, Acting

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• In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11th in stone and metal, something we can show children, as yet unborn, to help them understand what happened on this minute and on this day. But for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we’ll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Memories, September 11

  The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011

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• Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Screw Ups, Screws

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• No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.

  Drew Houston

  Business, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings us back one hundred years to a magical time in Twain's family life, revealing a house that's brimming with love and laughter, as well as the profound heartbreaks of life. A Mark Twain Christmas only deepens our understanding and respect for both the man and his work.

  Gilbert King

  Laughter, Past, Men

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• Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Silence, Behind You, Perfume

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• You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.

  Bobby Baldwin

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

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• Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.

  Beth Moore

  Giving, Too Much, Time Heals

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.74, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

  Erik Qualman

  Hero, Technology, Creating

  Erik Qualman (2012). “Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Shelagh Delaney (1961). “The Lion in Love: A Play”, London : Methuen

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• Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.

  Eve Ensler

  Moving, Wind, Molecules

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.217, Macmillan

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• The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

  Michael Hudson

  Promise, Free Money

  "The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street". Harper's Magazine, April 2005.

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• The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship.

  Gary North

  Christian, Goal, Long

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.

  Andy Borowitz

  Writing, Huckleberry, Has Beens

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• I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Clouds, Sight, Air

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• I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.

  David Oshinsky

  Winter, Boys, America

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• William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.

  Robert Twigger

  Voice, India, Generations

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• Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

  Max McKeown

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

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