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Quotes About Mark

It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
~ Zadie Smith
I know my 'Archie' history.
~ Mark Waid
Idiot, yes. All my life I struggled. That is the mark of an idiiot.
~ Howard Barker
There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard before that altar is the 'angel with the flaming sword.' Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes 'the angel with the flaming sword' to be placed upon your altar unless it be a part of 'the fluid area of your consent.' This is your crucial link with the Eternal.
~ Howard Thurman
I had been bigger sucker than a square mark. All he loses is scratch. I had joined a club that suckered me behind bars fives times.
~ Iceberg Slim
It looked unusual: a single large print in the snow with two sharp claws protruding from the rear of the mark going a couple of inches deeper. It almost looked like a bird of prey, maybe a raptor print, but huge and, from the depth of the print, from a very heavy creature. I began videotaping,
~ Unknown
As a generation, we must make our own mark of culture so we are remembered in the way we wish to be.
~ Unknown
The longer ending of Mark (16:9-20) is almost certainly not what Mark wrote. The two oldest and most reliable copies of the Gospel do not contain it (Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus). The style is quite different from the rest of Mark's Gospel, and some of the theology is potentially both heretical and fatal (see v. 18)!
~ Craig L. Blomberg
I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.
~ Curt Weldon
I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.
~ Mark Kurlansky
'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.
~ Clive Barker
Let her cover the mark as she will,'" he quoted sardonically, "'the pang of it will always be in her heart.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Passion: "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin." Mark: "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.
~ Unknown
One question: would you have called buying pastel linen dresses for Saigon a mark of 'privilege'? Or would you have called it more a mark of bone stupidity?
~ Joan Didion
We're relieved—and that's what makes us both feel so terrible. Can you imagine? To me, that would be the ultimate disgrace, to leave behind people who felt relief rather than sorrow at my passing. It would mean that I hadn't added value to this world. That I hadn't earned my keep as one of God's creatures. Isn't that the least we owe our Creator for all this splendor? To make a mark, to effect a change, to lighten a load, to do something to repay Him for this gift of life?
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark. Nat Parson's a gobshite. Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
~ Joanne Harris
If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.
~ Collin Raye
Being insecure -- now that's femininity. Unassuming. A good listener. Not too intellectually impressive. Just cultured enough to understand what some asshole has to say. Chatting is feminine. Anything that doesn't leave a mark.
~ Virginie Despentes
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!
~ Walter Scott
Noi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo una traccia, lasciamo la nostra impronta.
~ Philip Roth
Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love.
~ Philip Yancey
A cut scarred where a caress faded away.
~ R. Scott Bakker
A mark on one arm like the one I bore. Here, in this time, the mark of sorcery, the mark of a magus. The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination.
~ Diana Gabaldon