Shade Quotes - Page 5

• Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Lying, Answers, Fields

  "The Economics of Peace". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, p. 252, 1945.

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• There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul
  Like a day on a stream,
  Back on the banks of the old fishing hole
  Where a fellow can dream.
  There's nothing so good for a man as to flee
  From the city and lie
  Full length in the shade of a whispering tree
  And gaze at the sky.
  . . . .
  It is good for the world that men hunger to go
  To the banks of a stream,
  And weary of sham and of pomp and of show
  They have somewhere to dream.
  For this life would be dreary and sordid and base
  Did they not now and then
  Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space
  And come back to be men.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Lying, Men

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• They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.

  Andrew Holleran

  Song, Eye, Dancing

  Andrew Holleran (1978). “The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel”, William Morrow & Company

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• The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Bravery, Example

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.128

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• The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Men, Groups

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built

  Charles Bukowski

  Moving, Tired, Night

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don’t think I have the right parts to appreciate '50 Shades of Grey'.

  Chris Colfer

  Thinking, Appreciate, Grey

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• ... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Believe, People

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• For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reading, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

  Alain de Botton

  Love, Princess, Men

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Rainbow, Choices

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.155, Delacorte Press

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• I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dog, Hours, Okay

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.205, Scholastic Inc.

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• She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone against the sky She will never close her eyes And she does not let me sleep And her dreams in the bright day Make the suns evaporate And me laugh cry and laugh Speak when I have nothing to say

  Paul Eluard

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Paul Eluard, “L'Amoureuse”

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

  Jasper Fforde

  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?

  Jana Oliver

  Flames, Underwear, Armageddon

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Forgiven”, p.282, Macmillan

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• There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

  Kate Mosse

  Betrayal, White, Black

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• A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

  Karen White

  Rain, Sun, After The Rain

  Karen White (2012). “After the Rain”, p.79, Penguin

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• THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.

  Wendell Berry

  Blessed, Heart, Wild Roses

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• ...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

  Harry Turtledove

  Black And White, Thinking, Want

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• But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

  Anne Rice

  Blue, Sky

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.481, Ballantine Books

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• She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade.

  Kiera Cass

  Stars, Hair, Hands

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.40, HarperCollins

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• We are deep into the year of the dragon and all around the intensity of the collective pushes forward to a new age. The pieces and parts, the far-flung shades of life that make our hearts beat faster are starting to coalesce directly to the source.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Heart, Dragons, Years

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• I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the tone for the movies [Fifty Shades of Grey] so I felt a little more freedom this time and it probably made it more enjoyable.

  Jamie Dornan

  Fifty, Littles, Pressure

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm just a psycho myself. I loved playing Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker], taking on [a character] who's completely unhinged. I saw her as a girl who's grief-stricken and she just doesn't have the tools to cope. Grief and heartbreak, it makes you do some pretty crazy things.

  Bella Heathcote

  Girl, Crazy, Grief

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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