Quotes of Marker - somelinesforyou

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'. ”

- Earl Weaver

“ I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing… ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? ”

- Margaret Smith

“ There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states. ”

- Phyllis Schlafly

“ Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia. ”

- Clive Davis

“ Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. ”

- Horst Koehler

“ Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. ”

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ But monument themselves memorials need. ”

- George Crabbe

“ To the outsider, London is a sightseer's theme park, a rich assembly of landmarks and historic buildings, where blue plaques chronicle the passing of time right back to the Middle Ages. ”

- Unknown

“ As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new — and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, eath every one a friend. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ”

- Tommy Douglas

“ The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ The safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ Writers are the main landmarks of the past. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway. ”

- Joan Benoit Samuelson

“ In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful way. ”

- Nicholson Baker

“ It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ The city's frightening now. That's the basis of my reaction to Las Vegas. It's not the city I wrote about. It's not the same place at all. You'll notice that even the — what do you call them? — milestone or trademark casinos are now gone. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ That information essentially will be magically stored on the Internet itself,... With any device, once you prove who you are with a pass card or a smart card, the things you care about, (such as) e-mail, bookmarks... will appear on that device, but in the way that matters to you. ”

- Bill Gates
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