I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini or a road company Cosimo de' Medici. . . the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist.
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.
All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.
Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much. . . There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!
Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.
I was a huge fan of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.
And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.
I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.
The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. '
God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.