Mark Quotes - Page 37

• The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Education, Men, Information

  10 Copy quote

• I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Thinking, Long Ago, Needs

  "EL Doctorow: 'I don't have a style, but the books do'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Brother, Ocean, Years

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.73, Reprint Services Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Average, Persons, Left

  "Coins for Clemens: Collaborative Fundraising for Mark Twain" by Cindy Lovell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

  Abdul Kalam

  Signatures, Definitions, Autographs

  21 Copy quote

• I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Home, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Wit

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 377, 1678.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Prejudice, Landmines

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.186, Open Road Media

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

  Arthur Koestler

  Laughter, Greek, Tragedy

  4 Copy quote

• Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

  Norman Douglas

  Funny, Mother, Children

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.198, Courier Corporation

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Education, Advantage, Made

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.11, Regent College Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
  
  And make me cower in the dark.
  
  Remind me that I'm all alone
  
  And draw upon my face your mark.
  
  How is it that you capture me,
  
  When all my thoughts deny your force?
  
  Is it the reptile in my brain
  
  That lets your terror run its course?
  
  
  
  Baseless Fear undoes us all
  
  Despite our quest for lofty goals.
  
  We would-be Galahads don't die,
  
  Fear just freezes all our souls.
  
  It keeps us mute when feeling love,
  
  Reminding us what we might lose.
  
  And if by chance we meet success,
  
  Fear tells us which safe route to choose.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Fear, Dark

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama Revealed”, p.40, RosettaBooks

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

  H. L. Mencken

  Quotation Marks, Next, Grammar

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.593, Knopf

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Ideas, Originality

  14 Copy quote

• Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, People, Mind

  7 Copy quote

• One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

  Alan Bradley

  Stupidity, Mind, Demand

  Alan Bradley (2014). “The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.74, Delacorte Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  George Will

  Dream, Strong, Men

  17 Copy quote

• Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

  Andre Gide

  Party, Victory, May

  4 Copy quote

• If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Games, Paper, Mathematics

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Christian, Joy

  16 Copy quote

• There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

  Samuel Johnson

  Envy, Toil, Want

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Moving, Pride

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1116, e-artnow

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

  Jim Bishop

  Real, Writing, Men

  "Talk With Jim Bishop" by Lewis Nichols, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 1955.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Brain, Watches

  24 Copy quote