Casts Quotes

• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

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• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fall, Past, Shadow

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Stones, Not Judging

  "Gospel of John". 8:7,

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• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.25, Modern Library

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• 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.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Light, History

  Walter Bagehot (2010). “Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

  Robert Browning

  Mind, Shade, Height

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 3, l. 821

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• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Real Friends, Advice

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• Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67

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• Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

  Dorothy Day

  Fear, Reality, Order

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• Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

  John Mason Brown

  Women, Light, Becoming

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• He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Math, Reality

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• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

  E. M. Forster

  Umpires, Shadow, Room With A View

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

  Victor Hugo

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

  George Steiner

  Men, Light, Shadow

  "Not a Preface, but a Word of Thanks". Foreword to "Unfinished Journey" by Yehudi Menuhin, 1977.

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• It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Sea, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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• The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

  George Wald

  Peace, Grateful, Heart

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• The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Shore, Repeats

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Adversity, Angel

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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Grief, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

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• Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Science, Cutting, Way

  1855 Notebook entry, collected in Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts), vol.3 (published 1861-7, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).

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• Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Hate, Water, Worry

  Charles F. Haanel (2013). “The Master Key System & Mental Chemistry”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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