Shadow Quotes

Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

Swift as shadow, short as any dream

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.

Donald Trump's a bigot without a shadow of a doubt.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

I sat with my two best friends, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that only two of us would make it out of there alive. Though I did tend to exaggerate.

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Activating our light and our full potential requires that we embrace our shadow. Realizing our wholeness requires us to become big enough to hold our brokenness.

For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.

I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.

Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

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?

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

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

My outlook on life is to be true. To take risks. To love the shadows as well as the light. To find your task. To recognise your task. To be active.

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.

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 past to me.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people have to walk out of the shadows.

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

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.