If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
The soul seeks growth; as Truth, as Life, as Light, is in itself. God is, and so is life, light, truth, hope,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future,… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface,… — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Tai chi is the one exercise that can universally help solve our growing health crisis. It has stood the test of thousands… — Bruce Frantzis Copy Share Image
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The mobility of the eye is such a fundamental treasure that we have, and that coexists with sensation. On the dance floor,… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
