Marcus Deluca Quotes

You know, son, in life you're
going to have some good days and some crappy ones. Maybe more crappy ones than good
ones, but whatever you do, don't you ever give up. Make sure to push yourself
the farthest you can go. If you want something bad enough, you have to fight
for it. If you're not happy with your life, you and only you have
to do something to change it. ~ E.L. Montes

Marcus DeLuca had to be a dangerous man because I was caving in too soon; it was just too soon to feel this attachment, to feel and want him so desperately. When something seems too good to be true, it's exactly that. - Mia ~ E.L. Montes

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

You seldom see it in the papers. Once in a while some guys get put up for decorations and a ceremony takes place somewhere. You see them in dress uniforms, standing proud. But that's politics and theater. You should see them as I have, downrange, in action. They're amazing to watch, risking their lives to serve their country. I don't like to talk about valor awards. I don't think it's useful to think about them. We just go to work, and it's the work itself that tells us who we are. Our pride is no less without the fanfare. ~ Marcus Luttrell

It feels as though Tony's a ghost, a wisp of someone I once loved, or never loved at all and thought was someone else. I don't feel anything, not even when he fucks me. I wonder if he knows. I wonder if he believes I still want him. I always tell myself it's the last time, but I don't leave. i exist instead inside this shell of a life we've created. ~ Sandy DeLuca

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. ~ Michael Marcus

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair ~ Marcus Buckingham

Every instrument, tool, vessel, if it does that for which it has been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not there. But in the things which are held together by nature there is within and there abides in them the power which made them; wherefore the more is it fit to reverence this power, and to think, that, if thou dost live and act according to its will, everything in thee is in conformity to intelligence. And thus also in the universe the things which belong to it are in conformity to intelligence. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Goodness - what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity ... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future. ~ Marcus Buckingham

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us. ~ Marcus Aurelius

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me. ~ Marcus Samuelsson

The wise man never loses his temper. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius ~ Elisabeth Elliot

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

But know this, the lass will wed you -- her words -- and if you wed another in the interim, it will go badly for you."
Marcus smiled. He loved her and if it was in his power to do so, they would be wed. ~ Terry Spear

Even if you're going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can't lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don't have? ~ Marcus Aurelius

These people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance ... ~ Ben Marcus

He talks like he's living in Plato's Republic, not Romulus's shit-hole. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word. Without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. This ~ Marcus Du Sautoy

Wraps that up then, right? Praise Allah and pass the high explosive. ~ Marcus Luttrell

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook. ~ Marcus Samuelsson

The best revenge is not to do as they do. ~ Marcus Aurelius

That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding. ~ Marcus Aurelius

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oh, God. Was I going to have to yell "huzzah" too? How much did I love my niece? ~ Jen DeLuca

I will defend this family: Marcus, Rayna, Willy, Tiki and any others who need us, whether they be hunters, demons, or the oblivious mundane humans. I was chosen to carry the mark of the gods. I will stand up and be what the spirit named me: their protector. ~ M.R. Merrick

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sweet is the memory of past troubles. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it. ~ Marcus Buckingham

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE. ~ Marcus Aurelius

But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on. ~ Nick Hornby

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith. ~ Marcus Brigstocke

It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different."
"Not a mystery."
Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."
Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing. ~ Kate Morton

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. ~ Marcus Aurelius

This is another dream, isn't it?"
"Perceive it as you like. I've been trying to tell you things, but you're allowing the dark things-him-to invade your thoughts and feelings. ~ Sandy DeLuca

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Eternal Father, faithful friend, Be quick to answer those we send In brotherhood and urgent trust, On hidden missions dangerous, O hear us when we cry to Thee, For SEALs in air, on land, and sea. ~ Marcus Luttrell

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure. ~ Marcus Buckingham

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. ~ Marcus Aurelius

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities. ~ Bernard Marcus