Pale Quotes - Page 16

• And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Prayer, Night, Light

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Garden, White

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• Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

  Charles Churchill

  Purple, Shining, Vices

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill ...”, p.77

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• Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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• The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again.

  LaVell Edwards

  Goal, Receiving, Exaltation

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,
  And take to light claret instead of pale ale;
  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,
  And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Light, Wish, Looks

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

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• I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

  Charlie Siem

  Blue, White, Ties

  "How I Dress now: Charlie Siem". www.esquire.com. March 07, 2013.

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• A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wine, Men, Body

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• A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mother, Country, Ocean

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• The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Flower, Years

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Men, People

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• We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Writing, Thinking, Expectations

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• Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle
  Such lamps within the dome of this dim world
  That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle
  Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Names, Mind

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• We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

  Marcel Proust

  Tone, Introducing, Habit

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• More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Spring, Pale Yellow, Years

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• Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia, will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires.

  Walter E. Williams

  Miracle, Everyday, Desire

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• Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.

  Edmund White

  Men, Devil, Energy

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

  Kevin Rudd

  Kids, Illness, Terminal

  Kevin Rudd's remarks during the press conference at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. April 6, 2009.

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• Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Ideas, Rising

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• I wont use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

  Ken Buck

  Thinking, Issues, Choices

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• Nothing in the world is like this-
  a bright white page with
  pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil
  the soft hush of it
  moving finally
  one day
  into letters.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Blue, White

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.136, Penguin

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• Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

  John Updike

  Night, Together, Shade

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.102, Random House

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• I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

  Bart Chilton

  Rocks, Would Be, Haircuts

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• Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

  Paul Simon

  Powerful, Thinking, Music Is

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• We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dream, Memories, Two

  Paula Gunn Allen (1997). “Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995”

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