Top 1200 Question Mark Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

One scene is enough for a good actor to leave his mark in any film.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not I'm brave enough to go into the stall with Corr after yesterday morning, after I've had time to think about what happened. The thought of it makes my pulse trip. The question is not if I trust Corr. The question is if I trust Sean.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

I'm excited about working with Mark Hughes and building a good relationship with him.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

Making a mark becomes more challenging when you are a part of a multi-starrer. But I like that.

You see, my friends...you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.

Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the most truthful and complete answer you can imagine. You will know the absolute truth of the statement as well as the thought process behind the answer. You will have no doubt as to the intellect of the speaker and meaning of the answer to this question....So you can see, as a politician, he has a lot to learn.

Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.

Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as the description of a young black boy that Solomon Northup gives in 12 Years A Slave?" He describes the young black 14-year-old boy as "blacker than any crow." You have to question if he is using that metaphorically or as a descriptive?

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.

We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.

I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

I love Mark Twain's words - 'I've never allowed college to interfere with my education.'

Most of the time, I never go back. I leave my brush mark and move on.

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway.

People say, 'Oh Mark, you're a big softie, and you burst into tears so easily.'

Mark my words, Princess,” Loki said. “One day, you’ll be madly in love with me.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.

'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

To join the likes of Mark Schwarzer and Tim Cahill is an honor and one I am proud of.

I didn't make any mark on Barcelona. It was a blip in my career in terms of what I did as a coach.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

Here's what I wish people wouldn't ask me: "Who are your influences?" That's a boring question. It's not even like, "What's it like to be a woman in comedy?" That question also happens often in interviews, but I at least understand where it's coming from. "Who are your influences" - I wonder if people ask that of male comics? Maybe they do.

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.