Quotes About Black mark

The Union, now being in alliance with the ship-owners, could not very well see eye to eye with the average wants and desires of boys. The boys remained boys all their lives and for ever. They accepted a black mark upon the brow, their eyes became black too, their hands, rather than those of children, which many of them were, resembled those of farm labourers.

In Europe, there is a lower instance of startups because there's a permanent fear of failure. Everyone fears failure because it is this permanent black mark against your name, whereas in the U.S., failure seems to be par for the course.

Kimi Kanasket was a black mark on an otherwise joyous occasion, like the drunk uncle who causes a scene at a family wedding. You didn't acknowledge or talk about the incident. You quietly escorted him from the building so others could focus on the celebration, and when the family got together to remember that day, the blemish was never discussed, until, as the years passed, the incident was forgotten completely.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

Ranger smiled. "There are times when I seriously consider marrying you, but then I get yet another black mark on my path to enlightenment and forgiveness and I scratch marriage off my bucket list.

But we all behaved badly in that house; not one of us got out of there without a black mark. I've come to accept our sins as survival strategies.