Mark Hodder Quotes & Sayings

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win. — Mark Hodder

But maybe efficiency isn't all it's held up to be. Maybe it's the inefficiencies and mistakes that give us the best impetus to change and grow and improve. — Mark Hodder

We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain. — Mark Hodder

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended. — Mark Hodder

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell's. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is. — Mark Hodder

For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion. — Mark Hodder

The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith. — Mark Hodder

I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own. — Mark Hodder

Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a decision to follow its course into the future. But what of the abandoned options? Are they like unopened doors? Do alternative futures lie beyond them? How far would we wander from the course we have steered were we to go back and, just once, open Door A instead of Door B? — Mark Hodder

Faith requires nothing but blind adherence, whereas knowledge demands the continual apprehension of an ever-expanding body of information. With faith, one can at least claim knowledge without having to do the hard work of acquiring it. — Mark Hodder

Beware of the brains you invade. — Mark Hodder