Quotes with shadow

  • To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
  • Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
  • Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
  • Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
  • The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
  • A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
  • You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
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  • William Shakespeare A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Aeschylus Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry S. Haskins Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Pindar Men are the dreams of a shadow.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Molière Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Achille Poincelot A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Pythagoras Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Aesop Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown Don't use your skin tone as a guide to choosing the color of your eye shadow. Rather, for everyday application, pick shades of shadow that bring out your eye color.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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