Quotes about Marks

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con. Votes: 3

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. Votes: 3

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker. Votes: 3

Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you. Votes: 3

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years. Votes: 3

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs? Votes: 3

We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world. Votes: 3

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it. Votes: 3

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. Votes: 3

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. Votes: 3

I, cruel to Marks? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me. Votes: 3

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world. Votes: 3

I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels. Votes: 3

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain. Votes: 3

Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective. Votes: 3

Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin. Votes: 3

I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs. Votes: 3

These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge... Votes: 3

Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun. Votes: 3

Most Shadowhunters get their first Marks at twelve. It must have been in your blood.” “Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder.” Jace looked baffled. “You wanted a turtle on your shoulder?” -Jace & Clary, pg. 314- Votes: 3

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. Votes: 2

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. Votes: 2

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. Votes: 2

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. Votes: 2

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. Votes: 2

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion. Votes: 2

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Votes: 2

Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers. Votes: 2

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Votes: 2

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant. Votes: 2

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Votes: 2

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Votes: 2

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. Votes: 2

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. Votes: 2

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people. Votes: 2

What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me. Votes: 2

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. Votes: 2

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. Votes: 2

While you can find zucchini in markets in most places year-round, allowing you to make everything from breakfast dishes like zucchini and onion frittatas to snacks like zucchini-stuffed crab cakes, the onset of fall marks the beginning of hard squash season. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas. Votes: 2

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. Votes: 2

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. Votes: 2

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. Votes: 2

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. Votes: 2

The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell. Votes: 2

Zits are beauty marks. Votes: 0

Prejudice marks a mental landmine. Votes: 0

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah! Votes: 0

Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."' Votes: 0

Love is impossible without bite marks. Votes: 0

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. Votes: 0

'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism. Votes: 0

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks. Votes: 0

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism. Votes: 0

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks. Votes: 0

I've got tooth marks on my heart. Votes: 0

The marks won't listen if it's free. Votes: 0

The home marks a child for life. Votes: 0

The marks humans leave are too often scars. Votes: 0

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. Votes: 0

Time marks us while we are marking time. Votes: 0

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. Votes: 0

The stars are the land-marks of the universe. Votes: 0

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently. Votes: 0

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Votes: 0

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. Votes: 0

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. Votes: 0

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion. Votes: 0

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before Votes: 0

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. Votes: 0

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. Votes: 0

There are still hundreds of question marks to be answered Votes: 0

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating. Votes: 0

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. Votes: 0

She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks. Votes: 0

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence Votes: 0

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. Votes: 0

Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it. Votes: 0

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. Votes: 0

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. Votes: 0

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty. Votes: 0

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. Votes: 0

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man. Votes: 0

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success. Votes: 0

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. Votes: 0

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something. Votes: 0

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks. Votes: 0

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Votes: 0

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Votes: 0

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. Votes: 0

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll. Votes: 0

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. Votes: 0

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore. Votes: 0

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal. Votes: 0

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone... Votes: 0

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins. Votes: 0

How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher. Votes: 0

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family. Votes: 0

She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks. Votes: 0

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. Votes: 0

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks. Votes: 0

In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job! Votes: 0

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable Votes: 0

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. Votes: 0

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Votes: 0

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization. Votes: 0

When you're filming something, you have marks and spots you have to be in. Votes: 0

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. Votes: 0

Love is the passion of Life that marks the journey to our true destination. Votes: 0

When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey. Votes: 0

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. Votes: 0

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged Votes: 0

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. Votes: 0

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. Votes: 0

Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction; marks of maturity. Votes: 0

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. Votes: 0

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. Votes: 0

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time Votes: 0

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others. Votes: 0

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. Votes: 0

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. Votes: 0

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free. Votes: 0

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. Votes: 0

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. Votes: 0

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it. Votes: 0

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. Votes: 0

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. Votes: 0

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party. Votes: 0

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality. Votes: 0

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. Votes: 0

The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction. Votes: 0

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. Votes: 0

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. Votes: 0

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. Votes: 0

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity. Votes: 0

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies. Votes: 0

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. Votes: 0

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go! Votes: 0

You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart. Votes: 0

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls. Votes: 0

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs. Votes: 0

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. Votes: 0

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. Votes: 0

Yes, I was beaten on every part of my body, and the marks are still on my body. Votes: 0

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. Votes: 0

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us. Votes: 0

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. Votes: 0

I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face Votes: 0

My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all. Votes: 0

Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. Votes: 0

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. Votes: 0

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others Votes: 0

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross. Votes: 0

You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh. Votes: 0

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government. Votes: 0

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Votes: 0

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification. Votes: 0

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing. Votes: 0

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart. Votes: 0

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. Votes: 0

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith. Votes: 0

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body. Votes: 0

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. Votes: 0

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. Votes: 0

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life. Votes: 0

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Votes: 0

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain Votes: 0

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! Votes: 0

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. Votes: 0

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living. Votes: 0

Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... Votes: 0

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. Votes: 0

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. Votes: 0

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. Votes: 0

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. Votes: 0

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing Votes: 0

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern. Votes: 0

...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Votes: 0

Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest. Votes: 0

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Votes: 0

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement. Votes: 0

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Votes: 0

ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink. Votes: 0

The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says. Votes: 0

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production. Votes: 0

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. Votes: 0

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education. Votes: 0

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy. Votes: 0

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks Votes: 0

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. Votes: 0

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation. Votes: 0

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. Votes: 0

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution. Votes: 0

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. Votes: 0

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. Votes: 0

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues. Votes: 0

I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman. Votes: 0

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life. Votes: 0

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent. Votes: 0

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. Votes: 0

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient. Votes: 0

I don't need no surgery, or tattoos. I already got the marks and scars of the Universe on my face and body. Votes: 0

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, Votes: 0

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons). Votes: 0

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks. Votes: 0

Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan. Votes: 0

My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing. Votes: 0

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. Votes: 0

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. Votes: 0

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks. Votes: 0

sometimes it's better to bunk a class & enjoy with friends, coz today when I look back, marks never make me laugh memories do. Votes: 0

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness. Votes: 0

Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? - "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Votes: 0

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art. Votes: 0

What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human! Votes: 0

I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end. Votes: 0

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. Votes: 0

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. Votes: 0

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big. Votes: 0

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people"¦Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Votes: 0

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks. Votes: 0

Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional. Votes: 0

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity. Votes: 0

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life. Votes: 0

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. Votes: 0

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Votes: 0

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. Votes: 0

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides. Votes: 0

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man. Votes: 0

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented. Votes: 0

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. Votes: 0

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end. Votes: 0

Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn. Votes: 0

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner. Votes: 0

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to. Votes: 0

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. Votes: 0

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle. Votes: 0

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up. Votes: 0

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. Votes: 0

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do. Votes: 0

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. Votes: 0

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues. Votes: 0

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals. Votes: 0

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation. Votes: 0

Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks. Votes: 0

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life. Votes: 0

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations. Votes: 0

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. Votes: 0

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction. Votes: 0

The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time. Votes: 0

A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree. Votes: 0

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well. Votes: 0

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement. Votes: 0

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. Votes: 0

We need our marks, our small illusions; few of us can bear to go naked into the world's gaze. And people will kill to keep their clothes. Votes: 0

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes. Votes: 0

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his. Votes: 0

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand. Votes: 0

In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development. Votes: 0

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. Votes: 0

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone. Votes: 0

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. Votes: 0

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular. Votes: 0

One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about the size of their stretch marks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc. Votes: 0

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home. Votes: 0

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential. Votes: 0

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. Votes: 0

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times. Votes: 0

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers. Votes: 0

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. Votes: 0

Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars. Votes: 0

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. Votes: 0

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps. Votes: 0

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks. Votes: 0

There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her. Votes: 0

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell. Votes: 0

As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself Votes: 0

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon. Votes: 0

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks Votes: 0

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Votes: 0

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another. Votes: 0

In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences. Votes: 0

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties. Votes: 0

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world. Votes: 0

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. Votes: 0

The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era. Votes: 0

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts. Votes: 0

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character. Votes: 0

I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them. Votes: 0

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another. Votes: 0

I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions. Votes: 0

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. Votes: 0

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession. Votes: 0

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. Votes: 0

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world. Votes: 0

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war. Votes: 0

A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution. Votes: 0

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. Votes: 0

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. Votes: 0

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation. Votes: 0

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage. Votes: 0

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks. Votes: 0

She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark. Votes: 0

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you. Votes: 0

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality. Votes: 0

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks. Votes: 0

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. Votes: 0

She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark." Votes: 0

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own. Votes: 0

I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low key after-school job, and I spent a lot of time watching 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Dawson's Creek.' Votes: 0

Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. Votes: 0

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. Votes: 0

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction. Votes: 0

The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment. ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic. Votes: 0

Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance. Votes: 0

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name. Votes: 0

You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks. Votes: 0

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender. Votes: 0

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. Votes: 0

Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president. Votes: 0

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art. Votes: 0

you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life,golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks,that this union soured before it started. Votes: 0

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal. Votes: 0

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Votes: 0

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. Votes: 0

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. Votes: 0

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. Votes: 0

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge. Votes: 0

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West. Votes: 0

These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them. Votes: 0

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved. Votes: 0

Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out. Votes: 0

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development. Votes: 0

Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run. Votes: 0

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate. Votes: 0

There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head. Votes: 0

I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own. Votes: 0

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them. Votes: 0

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. Votes: 0

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop Votes: 0

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks. Votes: 0

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. Votes: 0

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. Votes: 0

I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten. Votes: 0

Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew. Votes: 0

It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction. Votes: 0