Best 1022 quotes in «shadow quotes» category

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows

Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

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!

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring

Whenever I'd feel angry or sad, I'd keep it to myself. I didn't want to upset or burden anyone with my problems. No wonder I felt lonely and isolated in my relationships, since I never allowed anyone to get to know the full me with all the shadows and sorrows.

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.

When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.

When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.

Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

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.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.