Marked Quotes

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.