There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.
Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.
to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is _x000D_ suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A _x000D_ willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style
If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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