If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.
But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.
The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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 in relation to everything else.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.
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.
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.
Two chicks. I mean, ladies... ah - women, girls, whatever the term is. I'll get it. I've got it marked down somewhere.
The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.
"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."
Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.
Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.
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.
The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.
[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.
[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.
Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.
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.
Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
Just 'cause you're following a
well-marked trail don't mean
that whoever made it knew where
they were goin'.
While I can make do with technology for other administrative work, I have to be physically present in my constituency, or I will be marked absent.
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.
I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.
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 history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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.
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