Shadow Quotes - Page 13

I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.