Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Bill Johnson

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

Edna O'Brien

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

William Shakespeare

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;

Beth Moore

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

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 Gates

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

We're going to have to shadow someone else.

Antonio Porchia

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

Edward Young

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Edward Young

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Democritus

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Democritus

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

She was like my shadow and I don't have my shadow no more. She's gone.

Abdul Kalam

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Charles Bukowski

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

Keith Robinson

What we wanted to do was shadow them and get up on any shot.

What we have now is a world-class stream, right in the shadow of Wal-Mart.

Stevie Smith

Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.

Stephen Spender

Who live under the shadow of a war,/ What can I do that matters?

Jane Hirshfield

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Juvenal

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Tracy Kidder

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Catherynne M. Valente

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Carl Jung

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Carl Jung

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

Adelbert von Chamisso

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Allen Tate

The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts....

Claude Debussy

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.