Shade Quotes - Page 13

• Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shadow, Essentials, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.236, Modern Library

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• Lo and behold! God made this
  starry wold,
  The maggot and the mold; lo and
  behold!
  He taught the grass contentment
  blade by blade,
  The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

  Nathalia Crane

  Contentment, Taught, Mold

  "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

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• The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

  David Letterman

  Art, Sunday, Awards

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• Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Color, Land

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• I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

  E. L. James

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Sms, Stories, Grey

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• Modesty and dew love the shade.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Retirement, Dew, Modesty

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• The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

  Horace

  Life, Home, Night

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• What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Nature, Stars

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

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• We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Hours, Ill, Productive

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.147

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• Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

  Honore de Balzac

  Feelings, Ignorant, Pieces

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• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
  Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
  His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
  Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
  Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
  Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
  No more sits listening by his den, but steals
  Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
  And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  William C. Bryant

  Dog, Sleep, Doors

  William Cullen Bryant, “Noon”

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• Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Sunset, Orange Trees

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• Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

  James Gates Percival

  Farewell, Night, Lasts

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• Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Death, Fall, Light

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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• I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.

  Channing Tatum

  Wife, Tree, Coconuts

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• He regarded the world-objects right in front of his face-as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth he also moved in other realms. In certain seasons, in certain shades, memories alighted on him like sharp-taloned birds: a head turning in the foliage, lantern light flaring in a room.

  Amanda Coplin

  Memories, Distance, Light

  Amanda Coplin (2012). “The Orchardist: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Army, Paris

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• I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

  Robert Pinsky

  Sleep, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think love keeps on changing every day.
  It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.

  Ville Valo

  Black And White, Thinking, Grey

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• Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Strong, Simple, Wide

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.234

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• I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

  George Herbert

  Bird, Tree, Wish

  'Affliction (1)' (1633) l. 55

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• In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

  John Keats

  Country, Perseverance, Freedom

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• The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Moon, Our World, Light

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• Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

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