Mark Blackthron Quotes

And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death. ~ Cassandra Clare

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it. ~ Mark Twain

Reconciliation, pardon, and cleansing from sin, have all an unspeakable value; they all, however, point onwards to sanctification. It is God's will that each one who has been marked by the precious blood, should know that it is a divine mark, characterizing his entire separation to God; that this blood calls him to an undivided consecration to a life, wholly for God, and that this blood is the promise, and the power of a participation in God's holiness, through which God Himself will make His abiding place in him, and be his God. ~ Andrew Murray

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close. ~ Mark Andrus

Little men," he once said, "spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of their deaths they see their lives shattered before them like glass. I've seen them die. They fall away as if they have been pushed, and the expressions on their faces are those of the most unbelieving surprise. Not so, the man who knows the virtues and lives by them. The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often defeated. But it doesn't matter. The virtues remain uncorrupted and uncorruptible. They are rewards in themselves, the bulwarks with which we can protect our vision of beauty, and the strengths by which we may stand, unperturbed, in the storm that comes when seeking God. ~ Mark Helprin

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. ~ Mark Twain

Yes, I should grow up, and yes, I will, but there's time for that tomorrow. Today is for living. ~ Mark Lawrence

Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way. ~ Mark Batterson

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot. ~ Mark McGrath

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning. ~ Mark Helprin

To the infinite, all finites are equal. ~ Mark Batterson

I have no illusions about myself, about my life, about leaving a legacy, or making a mark in people's lives. We are so insignificant. We are only here for a blink. ~ Miriam Defensor Santiago

I'm sorry I never understood … until now," she said, and that got Moss to turn his head slightly, and he looked straight at her, saw the rawness and terror in her eyes, and he inclined his head. It was his way of saying: Now you know.

He watched her gasp for breath, watched her lean her head back, desperate for air, watched her cry openly. This was what it took. This was the line she had to cross. He didn't know if it was enough. ~ Mark Oshiro

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings. ~ Mark Wahlberg

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. ~ David Foster Wallace

There is no tomorrow, only a string of todays. Still, ~ Mark Nepo

All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit - it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery - and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman - absolute mastery. ~ Alex Irvine

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody. ~ Mark Twain

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders. ~ Mark Twain

After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat. ~ Mark Kelly

These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that. ~ Mark Twain

You get a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is also earned, too. Raise yourself to excellence by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. ~ Mark F. LaMoure

Lazy, begets poverty, every time! ~ Mark Dawson

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. ~ Mark Twain

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others. ~ Mark Kingwell

You're a Good Little Slave ~ Mark Lawrence

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art? ~ Mark Lawrence

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you.
Mark Andrew Ramsay ~ Brendan Carroll

Playing whist by the cabin lamps when it is storming outside is pleasant; walking the quarterdeck in the moonlight is pleasant; smoking in the breezy foretop is pleasant when one is not afraid to go up there; but these are all feeble and commonplace compared with the joy of seeing people suffering the miseries of seasickness. ~ Mark Twain

I have career ADD, he says. I have career dissatisfaction. Even as a young kid, I'd have that. I'd get really passionate about something and then I'd realize, 'I don't want to do that! ~ Mark Consuelos

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish. ~ Mark Haddon