Mark Strand Quotes

1. "In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness."
Author: Andrew Murray

2. "Hallelujah might be putting itself on the map, but that mark would be made in blood, as well as iron."
Author: Devon Monk

3. "No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend...."
Author: Dion Fortune

4. "Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."
Author: Dmitri Mendeleev

5. "So I "feckup" words sometimes...I write in a colloquial style, so did Mark Twain. Seems I'm in pretty good company."
Author: Emma Paul

6. "Why was it, she sometimes wondered, that in dreams we can't do the simplest things? Like a crying puppy is standing on some broken glass and you want to pick it up and brush the shards off its pads but you can't because you're balancing a ball on your head. Or you're driving and there's this old guy on crutches and you go, to Mr. Feder, your Driver's Ed teacher, Should I swerve? And he's like, Uh, probably. But then you hear this big clunk and Feder makes a negative mark in his book."
Author: George Saunders

7. "Thou mayest rule over sin, Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles--only the winners are remembered. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkest. 'Thou mayest, thou mayest!' What glory! It is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth. A few remnants of fossilized jawbone, some broken teeth in strata of limestone, would be the only mark man would have left of his existence in the world. But the choice, Lee, the choice of winning!"
Author: John Steinbeck

8. "The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
Author: Lionel Trilling

9. "ALL of Mark Twain's! Just go to his quote page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot..."
Author: Mark Twain

10. "As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards—independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds—to ensure that they met the NIH's ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent. Scientists said medical research was doomed. In a letter to the editor of Science, one of them warned, "When we are prevented from attempting seemingly innocuous studies of cancer behavior in humans … we may mark 1966 as the year in which all medical progress ceased."
Author: Rebecca Skloot

11. "On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina."
Author: Tom Lantos

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