Shadowy Quotes

88 Shadowy quotes by 80 unique authors

In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do… — Violet Fane
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas… — Daniel Inouye
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory… — Ferdinand Magellan
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of… — Francis Parkman
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each… — Tennessee Williams
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. — Tom Coburn
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared… — Greil Marcus
It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity,… — Michael Gurian
The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or… — Richard Farson
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on,… — Unknown Author
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood — Amy Levy
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of… — Virgil Goode
Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible,… — Jon Krakauer
Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how… — Carl Safina
Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in… — Edward Hirsch
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far. — Robert Browning
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,… — Sara Teasdale
To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in… — Carlo Levi
And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again? — Harry Kemp
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and… — Huston Smith

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