Marked Quotes

451 Marked quotes by 383 unique authors

Without shedding of blood there is no anythingâ€¦ Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. — Vladimir Nabokov
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made… — William Trevor
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the… — Patrick Rothfuss
I believe in such cartography â€“ to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and… — Michael Ondaatje
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing… — Jack London
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by… — Eric Schlosser
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's… — Vladimir Nabokov
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful. — Lynsay Sands
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last… — David Wilkerson
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for… — William Shakespeare
And what if weâ€™d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if weâ€™d been that kind of family? Well, I would have… — Sue Miller
The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. — Robert James Waller
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd… — Douglas Coupland
I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one.… — D. J. MacHale
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. — Arthur Golden
I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my… — Bill Bryson

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