Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows. — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“Do not starve your soul while you indulge your body. That is dressing the shadow.” — Hemat Malak Copy Share Image
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me. — Rita Webb Copy Share Image
Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the… — Chris Barber Copy Share Image
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
“I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I’m walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time.… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“Shadows are created all around us whenever something blocks the light. And so it is with the shadow of doubt. When we… — Renee Swope Copy Share Image
It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague… — Gregory Galloway Copy Share Image
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image