Quotes of: Question-mark Keyword

How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?

Goodnight Tweetheart

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

The Book of Snobs

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed aroun...

Daniel Hannan

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The Alloy of Law

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Ashes

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

Intercourse

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

Ru

The first thing you should know is that soulmates are real. They are not just some romantic idea. We are made for one person and one person alone.

The Soul's Mark: FOUND

I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.

Married By Morning

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Oryx and Crake

What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?” ~Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper versus America

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.

Second Shift: Order

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

The Orchard of Lost Souls

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

The Pale King

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.

Sula

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Richard Bach