Shadow Quotations | Page 7

Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.

I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl.

Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

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

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

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.

Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

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

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

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

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.

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

If you betray me, Leta…Kill me. Be kind and don’t let me live in the shadow of your cruelty. I can’t take another blow like that. I’m not that strong. (Aiden)

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

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

I love being called NTRs grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didnt try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

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.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

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

From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all There was to it.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Doubt is the shadow of truth.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions - what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows.

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.

You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

The shadow proves the sunshine.

It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.

I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

The major issue for us was that it truly was an urban site with all of the rough edges and toughness that you find in an urban site, one in the shadow of the expressway, bounded by four busy streets.

Their moms and dads and children and grandchildren can know a proud America will always stand in the long shadow of their service and sacrifice.

The uncertainty over U.S. corporate earnings is casting a shadow over global financial markets, and the Tokyo market cannot be an exception.

the true shadow is not made by darkness but of light.

The housing starts did cast a shadow over the market, which currently has to contend with lots of short-term challenges,

For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.

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

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

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

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

Although Cisco's lowered stock price may be seductive to investors, we believe that there is still near term downside to the stock, ... It is clearer than ever to us that the current Cisco appears to be merely a shadow of its former self.

All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not whitherDeep roots are not reached by the frostFrom the ashes a fire shall be woken A light from the shadow will springRenewed be the blade that was brokenThe crownless again shall be king.

The generation that is coming up has lived its entire life in the shadow of HIV, and that's frankly one of the concerns that we have. Because of a certain comfort level that this generation has with HIV, in part because of the advances in treatment and those young people being able to see that they can live with HIV, there is an increased complacency among young people.

...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

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

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

The day labor corner is not as disconnected from society as people think. It's seen as a shadow economy, but that's really not the case.

And I'd rush back to the house and sit down at the computer and knock out a first draft of a Roy chapter and just collapse in those evenings, because it was -- I hate to admit it -- opening up some shadow side of myself and immersing myself there for that moment,

The market is under the shadow of the U.S.. It doesn't look like the election will be cleared up over the holiday weekend in the U.S. and people don't want to be exposed ahead of it.

I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.

To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

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

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

Doubt is faith's shadow.