Shadows Quotes

941 Shadows quotes by 659 unique authors

When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer… — Martin O'Malley
If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions… — Gail Collins
For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane… — Gail Collins
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will… — Leonardo da Vinci
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single… — William Cowper
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. — Charles Dickens
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided… — Desiderius Erasmus
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows. — Conrad Hall
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. — Conrad Hall
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime… — Conrad Hall
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! — O. Henry
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these… — David Hockney
To contemplate is to look at shadows. — Victor Hugo
To think of shadows is a serious thing. — Victor Hugo
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children;… — Hubert H. Humphrey
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal… — Thomas Huxley
Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward… — Jesse Jackson
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. — Joseph Joubert
I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before… — Stacy London
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my… — Lorna Luft
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. — Lorna Luft
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. — George MacDonald
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? — Christopher Marlowe
I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture. — Kevin McCloud

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