Shadow Quotes - Page 10

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

I set off, off to kill the man I love.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

We are linked by our shadows, not by our light.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

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