Gray Quotes - Page 20

• We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Struggle, Heart, Eye

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.80, Vanderbilt University Press

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• This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Whales, Four

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• Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tree, Green, Theory

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• The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.

  Joey Reiman

  Real, Creativity, Gray Matter

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.48, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then-the glory-so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Eye, Dark

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.106, Penguin

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• Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

  Al Capone

  Fall, Cat, Marine

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• I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

  Neal Shusterman

  Hair, Color, Shoes

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass.

  Jane Hamilton

  Rain, Fall, Night

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• A smile couldn't be brought into court as evidence. You couldn't arrest a man because he had trembled. Brown eyes had stolen a peep at gray eyes, so what? The tone of a voice was something that died with a word.

  Vera Caspary

  Eye, Men, Voice

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• If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, Airports, Sight

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Sky, Blue

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

  James Blunt

  Romantic, Running, Stars

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• I’ve learned that a storm isn’t always just bad weather, and a fire can be the start of something. I’ve found out that there are a lot more shades of gray in this world than I ever knew about. I’ve learned that sometimes, when you´re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is. And finally, I’ve learned that life isn’t really about failure and success. It’s about being present, in the moment when big things happen, when everything changes, including myself.

  Cynthia Hand

  Moving Forward, Fire, Weather

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• Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself.

  Nicole Williams

  Color, Black, Accepting

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• We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Mistake, Grateful, Thinking

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• I'm comfortable with morally gray.

  Noah

  Comfortable

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• As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity
  Unveiling the grim reality of duality
  In which everyone is a casualty, no one will be exempt
  Truth has many shades
  It's not a matter of black and white, but gray
  Although many, we are one, so in the final analysis
  Could it be that we are fighting a war that can't be won?

  Morgan Freeman

  War, Fall, Fighting

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• The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Boys, Hair, Lovely

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• In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

  Paul Dano

  Black And White, Fog, Tragedy

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• On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.

  Tori Murden

  Ocean, June, Sky

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• Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is-ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Life, Beautiful, Heart

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• You might be a redneck if...you think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are the three of the primary colors.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Blue

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• I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

  Emmy Rossum

  Inspiration, Thinking, Rocks

  "15 Questions With Emmy Rossum". Interview with Miranda Lightstone, www.askmen.com.

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cheer, Blue, Sky

  Song: I Love Paris

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• Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.

  Nicholas Samstag

  Uncles, Military, Patriotic

  Nicholas Samstag (1962). “The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better”, Astor-Honor Incorporated

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