It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
~By John Ruskin ~
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
~By John Fletcher ~
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.
~By Steve Israel ~
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
~By Kay Granger ~
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
~By Bruce Cockburn ~
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
~By Georg Trakl ~
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
~By Gwen John ~
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
~By Walt Whitman ~
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
~By Thomas Hooker ~
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
~By James Shirley ~
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
~By Lorna Luft ~
I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
~By Gary Allan ~
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
~By Lorna Luft ~
A child can escape the shadows.
~By Steve Largent ~
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~By Junichiro Tanizaki ~
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
~By Victor Hugo ~
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
~By David Selby ~
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
~By David Selby ~
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
~By Evita Peron ~
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
~By Conrad Hall ~
I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.
~By Thayer David ~
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?
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
~By Kate Chopin ~
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.
~By William Cowper ~
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.
~By Tony Iommi ~
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
~By O. Henry ~
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.
~By David Hockney ~
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
~By Martha Beck ~
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
~By Debbie Allen ~
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
~By Edmund Burke ~
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
~By Grandma Moses ~
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
~By August Sander ~
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
~By Joshua Sylvester ~
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
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.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
~By George MacDonald ~
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
~By Conrad Hall ~
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
~By Thomas Browne ~
Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
~By Albert Maltz ~
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
~By Jonathan Frid ~
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
~By Bill Wyman ~
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
~By Jennie Churchill ~
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
~By Junichiro Tanizaki ~
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
~By Hermann Minkowski ~
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
~By Victor Hugo ~
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
~By Roger Waters ~
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
~By John Sterling ~
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
~By Conrad Hall ~
You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
~By Allan Dwan ~
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