It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
[Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism. He says liberals have appealed to African-Americans or women or the LGBT community but failed to craft a strong, broad national message. He's not the only person saying this. Long before the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders argued the Democrats lost the white working class by not speaking broadly to the country.
There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U. S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true. His aesthetic -- steeped in the Russian school but open to contemporary sources -- is ideal for this work and for our company, which, with our classical heritage and our passion for the modern, is perfectly suited to his distinctive dance vision.
We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.
the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.
Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. . . . [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
Every work of art has one indispensable mark. . . the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.