Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marlantes

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

George Herbert

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

Rajneesh

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Socrates

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.

Ray Bradbury

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Theodore Roethke

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

Michel de Montaigne

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.

Matt Groening

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Paul Gauguin

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Lauren Oliver

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Oscar Wilde

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Savitri Devi

Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'

Michelle Malkin

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

Sidney Sheldon

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

Leonardo da Vinci

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Above all shadows rides the sun.

Herman Melville

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

Jean Rhys

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

George P. Shultz

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Chris Johnson

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

George W. Bush

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Federico Garcia Lorca

...I am the immense shadow of my tears

Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

Immanuel Kant

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Homer

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Masashi Kishimoto

Hidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy? Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone! Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?

Neil Gaiman

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Helmut Kohl

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

James Russell Lowell

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.