Marked Quotes

451 Marked quotes by 383 unique authors

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay. — Dante Alighieri
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger… — Kathleen Norris
My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another… — Jonathan Lethem
I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just… — Aaron Allston
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one… — Paulo Coelho
Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do… — Ambrose Bierce
In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away,… — Laini Taylor
I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often… — Rob Lowe
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back… — Joan Didion
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over… — Philip Roth
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the… — Italo Calvino
When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of… — Leslie Ludy
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. — Cormac McCarthy
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to… — Richard Wright
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if… — Mark Z. Danielewski
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free… — Yukio Mishima
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives… — Timothy Keller
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A… — Dr. Seuss
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that… — Elisabeth Elliot
Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin. — Tonya Hurley
in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked — Helene Cixous
It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and… — Ian Mcewan
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe… — Erin McKean
But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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