Nick Nolte

I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

American Actor

Joan Didion

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

American Author

Ernest Hemingway

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

American Novelist

Orison Swett Marden

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

American Writer

Alice Walker

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Shane Carruth

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.

German Politician

Theodore Roosevelt

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

American President

Victor Hugo

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

French Author

William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

English Playwright

Mar often refers to tangible damage that affects an object's appearance or function.

Physical Impact

It suggests a change for the worse, impacting something that was previously unspoiled or perfect.

Negative Change

'Mar' indicates a smaller degree of damage compared to words like 'destroy' or 'demolish'.

Subtle Differences

Emphasizes that 'mar' can mean reducing the complete or ideal state of something.

Subtracting Perfection

Mar sometimes refers to inner qualities or conditions, not just external features.

Internal Factors

As a noun, 'mar' captures the idea of a scar or imperfection, often used metaphorically.

Symbolic Usage

Refers to defects that are noticeable and affect something's outward appearance.

Visible Faults

 We feel it to the very end. In fact, anger has been with us at some of the worst moments of our lives. It's a natural and expected part of our grief. But it's also been with us in some of the best moments of our lives, with those special occasions like weddings and vacations often marred by these everyday frustrations --

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 Pregnancies are meant to be happy and fulfilling moments in any woman's life. But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts --

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 But her success is marred by tragedy. She has only one surviving heir.