Shadow Quotes - Page 27

• The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

  George W. Bush

  Allies, United States, Determined

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Inspiration

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• For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Airplane, Worry

  "Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Fighting, Racist

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.65

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

  Jim DeMint

  Islamic, Light, Iraq

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• Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Eye, Way, Firsts

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• I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

  Junot Diaz

  Saws, Grew Up, Regimes

  "Old friends Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman talk shop". Interview with Miwa Messer, www.csmonitor.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, New York, Growing Up

  "Junot Díaz Aims to Fulfill His Dream of Publishing Sci-Fi Novel With Monstro". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy", www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Cheerful, Sound

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Mean, Feelings, Together

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.10, Theodore Dreiser

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• What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Missing You, Plato, Real

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• 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.

  William Hague

  Strong, Climate, Cabinets

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• There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

  William Hague

  Travel, Secretary, Budgets

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• It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

  Conrad Hall

  Important, Knows, Ifs

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• Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

  Conrad Hall

  Writing, Writing Music

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• Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Growing Up, Pakistan, States

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• Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

  O. Henry

  Art, Food, Family Love

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.218, 谷月社

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• Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

  David Hockney

  Art, People, Chinese

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fun, Mean, Dark

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Poodles, Littles, Monkeys

  "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.

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• To contemplate is to look at shadows.

  Victor Hugo

  Looks, Contemplating

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• To think of shadows is a serious thing.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Serious Things, Serious

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

  William Morris Hunt

  Art, Philosophy, Light

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Half, World

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 169), 1997.

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• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Fall, People

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