Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.
What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil. . . Gee. . . It's got teeth marks all over it. . . She nibbles her pencil. . . She's human!
I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I go to the National Portrait Gallery, I'm not thinking about the sitter; I'm thinking about how the artist chose that color or that highlight. It becomes about the time, place, and context.
Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.
I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.
I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments. . . they carry strong marks of the haste, and still stronger marks of the inexperience, under which they were framed.
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people. . . Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed. " Instead, all I could see were question marks.
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
I would say auditioning was my real training ground. The technical aspects - like hitting marks and pacing yourself and preparing and dealing with the downtime - the first recurring role I had on 24 was probably the way I learned that stuff.
