Quotes with shadows

  • Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
  • Man is a substance clad in shadows.
  • When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
  • Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
  • Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
  • News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ruth E. Renkel Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
    Ruth E. Renkel
     
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Macdonald Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Bode Miller Anyone who isn't strong is left in a corner, no one asks for their autograph, they are abandoned in the cold shadows. Those who win, however, become icons.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • William Blake Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows, wake! expand!
    Jerusalem Chap: I
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Armistead Maupin But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • William Cowper Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Michel Leiris Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Events cast long shadows before.
    One such event would be a war.
    But how are shadows to be seen
    When total darkness fills the screen?
    Poems, 1913-1956 Alphabet [Alfabet] from Five Childrens Songs (1934
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Alexander Maclaren Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Albert Maltz Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • John Updike Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Joseph Joubert How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Wyman I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
    (2004)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Robert Eldridge Willmott Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and
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  • Walt Whitman Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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