Shadow Quotes - Page 15

• Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

  David Whyte

  Casts, Fearful

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.

  Robert Smythe Hichens

  Believe, People, Doubt

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• You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

  Adi Shankara

  Dream, Reflection, Imagination

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook or ignore this part of us. The enemy is thus not merely a hurdle to be leaped on the way to God. The enemy can be the way to God. We cannot come to terms with our shadow except through our enemies.

  Walter Wink

  Enemy, May, Able

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• When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

  Al Neuharth

  Men, Voice, Silence

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• What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures.

  David Hockney

  Art, Strong, Light

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Wind, Branches

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• After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Caves, Century, Stills

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.167, Vintage

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• Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Past, Dust

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• To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Looks, Substance

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• How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

  Paul Gauguin

  Blue, Yellow, Tree

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• I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

  Juan Gris

  White, Black, Paper

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• All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, America, Risk

  "Obama's Big Immigration Speech Sets Up Possible Shutdown Showdown With GOP" by Hunter Walker, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2014.

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Generally I would say that I'm not a super-adventurous shadow girl. I'm all about a lip, eyebrow, and mascara, but through the years, working with different talented makeup artists, I learned how awesome eye makeup can be if you get it right. That's how we got the colors we came up with.

  Gwen Stefani

  Girl, Eye, Artist

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from the hat and be like “Do you see that!” It’s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.

  Laura Owens

  People, World, Faces

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power. The shadow isn't a fearsome opponent but a worthy one. Powerful as it is, the power of wholeness is infinitely greater, and by a miracle of creation, it is within your grasp.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Order, Years

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• Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.

  Elie Faure

  Twilight, Past, Symphony

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Blessing, Ideas, Luxury

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we want to avoid the disaster of one-world-government, if we wish to preserve our priceless national sovereignty and live through all time as free men, then it is imperative that the American people read The Shadows of Power.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  Men, People, Wish

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• Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Christian, Country, Cheer

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• The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Civilization, Effort, Guarantees

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• All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Long, Humanity, Secret

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• Don't make friends with shadows; because shadows cannot smile!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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