Mark Quotes

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

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

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.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

And not a single mark on the Lamborghini. Ha! Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards! (Kyrian)

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

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

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.