Mark Twain Quotes

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

Mark Twain

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Tied
  • Likely

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Night
  • Technology
  • Morning

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
  • True
  • Faith
  • Acceptance

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • School
  • Night

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Dad
  • Empathy

• With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • I Believe
  • Pastor

• Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • God
  • Tired