Sometimes you want to run away Sometimes you think you do But you never had a dream like this before And you don't want to ask for more Sometimes you leave a mark Before you know the score
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.
Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.
Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal
A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.
Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.