Top 100 The Mark Quotes
#1. Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?
Mindy Kaling
#2. Life is too short to waste ... 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person.
Donna Tartt
#5. Fear of scholasticism is the mark of a false prophet. - KARL BARTH
R. Scott Clark
#6. Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
John Mica
#7. Master Nolan - Being angry at a sub because a scene goes bad or you don't get the response you want isn't the mark of a good Dom. And insulting a woman for any reason is the mark of an asshole.
Cherise Sinclair
#8. Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.
John Rhys-Davies
#9. I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.
Johann Lamont
#10. Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.
Ariel Pink
#11. Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
Tom Peters
#12. Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
George E.P. Box
#14. Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
Tom Peters
#15. The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson
#16. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;
Robert Louis Stevenson
#17. I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
Josh Radnor
#18. For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.
Mary McCarthy
#19. It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
Alan Bennett
#20. The mark of the procedure. A real one.
Lu is cured.
Lauren Oliver
#21. Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.
Brian Tracy
#22. Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver's autobiography, "Clutch Down, Dick Out", would know that perception was way off the mark.
Mark Jackman
#23. The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.
Chris Osgood
#24. Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.
Gautama Buddha
#25. The mark of a man is his willingness to do things that he must do but doesn't wish to.
Robert J. Crane
#26. To break the mark definitely showed me I'm on the right track.
Katie Hoff
#27. Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark
Duncan Fletcher
#28. But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome,
David Ross
#29. A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.
Robbie Fowler
#30. The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
Blaise Pascal
#31. The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads
Fulton J. Sheen
#32. Ah, man. (Talon)
What? (Wulf)
Friggin' Fabio alert. (Talon)
Hey, you're not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf)
Bite me, Viking. (Talon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#34. The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
Dave Chappelle
#35. And then I started laughing. Horrible, really. But I was laughing. Because of all the things they could say about me, equal parts horrible and true, this was so far from the mark it was funny.
Megan Miranda
#36. 25 The mark of a heart filled with goodness is a cheerful face,
Anonymous
#37. Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better?
V.S. Carnes
#38. as well as Biblically. First, the Negro's black skin is not the mark of Cain as so many, even some preachers, claim. If that were true, that would make the Negro our distant cousin, distant but still part of the same family. They are not part of the human race, distant or otherwise. Don't
Michael Edwin Q.
#40. The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. - Father Tyler's Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE
Erika Johansen
#41. In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
E. Lockhart
#42. I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.
George MacDonald Fraser
#43. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#44. How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
Paulo Coelho
#45. I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
Noah Baumbach
#46. It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor.
Rhiannon Held Silver
#47. Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
Francis Schaeffer
#49. Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
Thomas Merton
#50. The mark of the coward is that he attacks the defenseless.
Marty Rubin
#51. The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#52. Oh my God. She waited for the chastising sting of the mark, which acted like a behavioral-modification dog collar. When the burn didn't come after taking the Lord's name in vain, she found some of the fog in her brain lifting.
Sylvia Day
#53. I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.
Rose McIver
#54. As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#55. To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.
Geoffrey Madan
#56. Wishes left on your lips
The mark of their wings.
Regrets fly kites in your eyes.
Carl Sandburg
#57. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.
Bobby Baldwin
#58. Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.
Richard Manning
#59. There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
Blaise Pascal
#60. A good officer was one who accepted orders and fulfilled them, even when he disagreed. But the mark of a great officer was that he also tried to innovate and offer appropriate suggestions.
Brandon Sanderson
#62. The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead
#63. The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.
Bill Hybels
#64. I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#65. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#66. It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
Andrew Sarris
#67. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
Brian Tracy
#68. There are certain directors where you know you're going to be good or you're not going to be there. There are people where you kind of know that if you miss the mark then it'll probably not be in the movie and that's very reassuring.
Christopher Walken
#69. You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
#71. You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.
Linus Torvalds
#72. my cross to bear in life, to always want to help, but to never quite measure up, never be there quite on time to do any good, always to miss the mark.
J. A. Jance
#73. Willingness to learn is the mark of a youthful mind.
Rickson Gracie
#74. Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
Philip Sidney
#75. Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.
Daymond John
#76. You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.
James Corden
#77. We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." 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 find itself behind.
Walter Isaacson
#78. The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.
Eric Schlosser
#79. Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.
Stephnie Weir
#80. Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
The Mark of Athena burns through Rome.
Twins snuff out the angel's breath,
Who holds the key to endless death.
Giant's bane stands gold and pale,
Won through pain from a woven jail.
Rick Riordan
#82. Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
Pierce Brosnan
#83. 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
Ashley Montagu
#84. It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#85. As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
John Dryden
#86. I've always felt that the mark of a man is his willingness to fight for his principles. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. It doesn't matter if you ever had a chance to win in the first place. Even if the deck is rigged and the game's against you, you keep fighting until the bitter end.
Craig Schaefer
#87. I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end includes grave danger and the possibility of death is the mark of a man.
Anna Godbersen
#88. 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.
Walt Whitman
#89. Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
#90. Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and urgency, will create strategies that will always miss the mark.
Robert Greene
#91. I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric - it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career.
Jens Voigt
#92. Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."
Winona Ryder
#93. But then, it is the mark of a good book that it rewards many readings, is it not?
Steven Brust
#94. Superficially it may appear that I am more interested in books than in people; but I think it nearer the mark to say that I am more interested in people as they are revealed to me in books than as they reveal themselves to me in daily contact.
Vincent Starrett
#95. Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
Jane Espenson
#97. Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield
#98. He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#99. I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.
Stephen Lang
#100. Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.
Mitchell Baker
