"Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?"
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"Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners."
"To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government."
"My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture."
"The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed."
"We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble."
"Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark."
"I wanted to leave a mark on the world. Doesnt matter how big. I just wanted to make a mark in peoples lives."
"Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief."
"The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)"
"Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership"
"But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence."
"The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college."
"Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding."
"The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark."
"A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
"Either you make a mark on the world, or the world will make a mark on you."
"You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself."
"Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality."
"A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence"