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Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.
Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.
Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.
You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.
The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.
I know I belong at 170. There is not a shadow of a doubt. This is my division and there's a clearcut path to the title.
I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
I know I live in the shadow of the greatest drummer in the world, so it's nice to have a bit of sunshine now and again.
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.
There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.
They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.
One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.
For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.
No one understands what it's like to walk in the shadow of a famous father, let alone Ric Flair, in the wrestling industry.
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.
Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.