Best 349 quotes in «mark quotes» category

The first mark of valor is defence.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

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.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.

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

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

The person who believes he must earn the right to go through the door of eternal life will miss the mark.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

There are still hundreds of question marks to be answered

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.