I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.
I want my music to leave an indelible mark.
God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
There was a review by Fairfield Porter from the 1950s about Mark Rothko, one of the more hallowed names in American art. Porter says something like, "Yeah, Rothko paints rectangles of color. They have mass but no weight. " That's not in any way a detraction, but it's a description. And it has nothing to do with the spiritual dimension. The main thing is as an intelligent viewer, to identify just what those things are that it does, that those rectangles do, and then not assume that they do these things over here. I don't know why that's challenging.
If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.
Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office. . . You mean the one on the sofa?
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.