Quotes with shadow

Quotes 41 till 60 of 80.

  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • C. S. Lewis Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Jean Genet Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • C. Wright Mills Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • John Gay Shadow owes its birth to light.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Bradley Chicho Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Socrates The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Oswald Chambers The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Jim Dodge The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.
    Stone Junction (2004) 348
    Jim Dodge
    American novelist and poet (1945 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Buddha The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • William Shakespeare The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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