The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
Mo Udall

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
William Bartram

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
Burl Ives

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
Barry Sanders

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
Arthur C. Clarke

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.
John Keegan

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Bram Cohen

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
Shana Alexander

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. Nixon

The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.
Robert Kirby

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Felix Frankfurter

The mark of fear is not easily removed.
Ernest Gaines