The Marked Quotes

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science. ~ Harold Urey

You think me cruel."
"No." Magiano hesitates for a long moment. "Maybe a little."
"I'm not branding them because I am cruel," I say calmly. "I'm doing it as a reminder of what they've done to us. To the marked. You're so quick to forget."
"I never forget," Magiano replies. This time, there is a slight sharpness to his tone. His hand hovers near his side, where his childhood wound continues to plague him. "But branding the unmarked with your crest will not make them any more loyal to you."
"It makes them fear me."
"Fear works best with some love," Magiano says. "Show them that you can be terrifying, yet generous." The gold bands in his braids clink. "Let the people love you a little, mi Adelinetta. ~ Marie Lu

I hadn't even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell. ~ Bianca Scardoni

One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it - eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage. ~ Bianca Scardoni

I flipped open to read the marked passage in Daily Strength: "It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them." - F. W. Robertson ~ Will Schwalbe

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity. ~ Joanna Baillie

Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules. ~ Lord Kelvin

The sexual attraction between a shifter and one of the marked was always strong and for some that was enough. Even though it might mean spending the rest of your life bound to a woman who wanted to screw you every time she looked at you, but hated you while she did it. ~ Cait Miller

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle. ~ Ernst Junger

Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie. ~ Bianca Scardoni

She scrambled to her feet. She knew her sisters were eyeing her strangely, knew that what she was feeling was undisguised. Right then, she didn't care. She turned and ran for him. Bastian! Standing at the door, so tall and proud.
When he saw her, his lips parted, then he absently palmed the center of his chest.
As she hadn't slowed, he opened his arms - she knew what this meant - but she didn't hesitate to run into them, leaping up and latching onto him. They would have gone reeling if he weren't so strong.
The Valkyrie who'd flown down the stairs at the marked lightning saw her. All around them, she heard gasps. One muttered, "She ran to his arms. I saw it."
"Bastian, I missed you!" Kaderin whispered.
"God, I missed you, too," he murmured, clutching her. ~ Kresley Cole

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 be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement. ~ John Stuart Mill

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. ~ Nelson A. Miles

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ~ Pauline Neville-Jones

To illustrate the marked atmospheric contrast between the two cities, the writer Frank Carpenter observed that in New York, "a streetcar will not wait for you if you are not just at its stopping point. It goes on and you must stand there until the next car comes along. In Washington people a block away signal the cars by waving their hands or their umbrellas. Then they walk to the car at a leisurely pace, while the drivers wait patiently and the horses rest." While the capital might lack "the spirit of intense energy" that animated New York, Carpenter concluded that Washington, with its broad, clean streets and fine marble buildings (and its shanties generally hidden from view), offered "the pleasanter place in which to live. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly. ~ Jennifer Lopez

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.' ~ Ani DiFranco

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction. ~ Suzanne Collins

Moment to moment we act freely, we make decisions and form opinions and there is very little to throttle us. We think each of us has a map marked with private routings and preferred habitual destinations, and go by a legend of our own. Yet it turns out you can overlay them and see a most amazing correspondence; what you believed were very personal contours aligning not exactly but enough that while our via points may diverge, our endings do not. ~ Chang-rae Lee

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American. ~ Barack Obama

In every village marked with little spire,
Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. ~ William Shenstone

Matthew had won this battle - a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen. ~ Steve V. Cypert

If you are marked by God, you don't need to be marketed by man. ~ Christine Caine

Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied. ~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked "TODAY". ~ Reinhard Bonnke

We are creature deeply marked by our expectations ~ Alain De Botton

A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his special characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody." But a man - I'm not speaking of you now - may very well be 'nobody'. ~ Luigi Pirandello

You've marked me. Not just my heart with your love or my mind with your words, but more so my soul with everything you are. Everything you aspire to be. And everything you think we can be together. ~ K. Bromberg

Love is powerful. It leaves a mark. And I can only speak for myself, but finding you, knowing you, loving you - it's marked me for life. ~ Maggie Bloom

She was a Seeker now, marked for life.
She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned. ~ Arwen Elys Dayton

If you choose to wear this, you'll be marked as mine. Mine to do with as I wish. You will obey me and never question what I tell you to do. ~ Tara Sue Me

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.] ~ George Herbert

But he wasn't ugly, just misplaced and marked by loneliness. ~ Sherman Alexie

I half expected you to whip out your dick and pee on me as you snarled at him and marked your territory. ~ Lorelei James

I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe ... ~ John Geddes

My body is marked with you. My arms. My chest. My eyes. My head. My heart." Tears rolled down her cheeks. "I can't erase you. I'd have to die to be free of you. D-don't you see that, Gris? C-can't you see? There is only you for me. ~ Katy Regnery

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around "I love you" like a
marked-down phrase in a sale bin. ~ Tonya Hurley

When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked. ~ J.C. Ryle

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful. ~ Lynsay Sands

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. ~ Cormac McCarthy

Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. ~ Audrey Niffenegger

Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory. ~ Lily Tomlin

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. ~ Catherine Opie

A marked desire to be considered more than he felt himself to be; to become endowed, in fact, with that unpredictable, dangerous and transformative quality: fame. ~ Robert Galbraith

Reed says that God made a thousand, thousand worlds, each like this one, only different.
I hope there's one of them in which I chose to walk another path. But I fear that in any universe my path will be marked with blood. ~ Neil Gaiman

Seeing those scars, those marks that he most definitely had never asked for, I had to wonder how he felt about being permanently marked up against his will. ~ Jay Crownover

What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go? ~ Sara Sheridan

It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it. ~ Michael Lewis

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority. ~ Arthur W. Pink

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. ~ Andrea Dworkin

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature. ~ Helen Clark

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running? ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent ... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience. ~ Nicholas A. Christakis

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial ... C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer