Marred Quotes

You would think four years after 9-11, with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness, that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government. - Susan Collins

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred. - Rudyard Kipling

Wealth acquired through an insecure lifestyle that is marred by uncertainty, instability and excessive efforts is no wealth at all. - Tom Seeley

We were irresponsible. We're very ashamed of these activities. We're deeply sorry we have marred the image of the Greek community and marred the university image as well. - Jeffrey Schmitz

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. - David R. Gergen

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer /committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. - George Eliot

Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. - Bible

The violence, destruction and hate which marred some of the protests against the publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad over the weekend are totally unacceptable. I am confident that they are not supported by the vast majority of people of Islamic faith, regardless of how offended they feel by these caricatures. - Terry Davis