Shade Quotes - Page 2

• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

  Franz Kafka

  Photography, Eye, Light

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Real Friends, Advice

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• I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

  Sylvia Plath

  Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

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• How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Ideas, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1262, Delphi Classics

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• Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Past, Atmosphere

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• The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
  The artist delights people with
  a thousand different shades of feeling.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, People, Soul

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• I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

  Norman Parkinson

  Good Luck, People, Looks

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• Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Rejection, Feelings

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

  John Constable

  Ugly Things, Ugly, Saws

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The Sun that from his amber bower rejoiceth on his way, The Moon and Stars, their Master's name in silent pomp display.

  Reginald Heber

  Nature, Morning, Stars

  Reginald Heber (1858). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.252

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• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Kindness, Men, Garden

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• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Music, Writing, Law

  1974 Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

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• There is a shade of red for every woman.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Fashion, Red

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• You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Afternoon, Acorns

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• Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Beautiful, Garden, Sight

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lying, Eye, Darkness

  1918 'Fare Well'.

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• As it fell upon a day
  In the merry month of May,
  Sitting in a pleasant shade
  Which a grove of myrtles made.

  Richard Barnfield

  Myrtle, Sitting, May

  'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

  John Constable

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.

  David Swing

  Light, Air, Bird

  "Motives of Life".

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• Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

  Dean Cavanagh

  Blood, Blue, Broken

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• Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Loyalty, Horse, Integrity

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