Overshadowed Quotes

#1. Val and Ruth had been friends forever, for so long that Val was used to being the overshadowed one, the "normal" one, the one who set up the witty one-liners, not the one who delivered them. She liked that role; it made her feel safe. Robin to Ruth's Batman. Chewbaca to her Han Solo.

Holly Black

#2. A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the voice of conscience.

Debra Moffitt

#3. The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

Patanjali

#4. Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

Quentin L. Cook

#5. We replanted. The loss was substantial, but it was overshadowed completely by losing you.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#6. A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) ... I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame.

Frank Thomas

#8. Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

Patanjali

#9. we let our pile of good things grow until it overshadowed the darkness

Fran Seen

#10. When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.

Russell M. Nelson

#11. Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.

Hunter Shea

#12. While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

John Podhoretz

#13. Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a ... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

Jordana Brewster

#14. but the very content that comes from finding yourself is overshadowed by the knowledge that by doing so you are admitting you are not only a grotesque, but a special kind of grotesque.

Sylvia Plath

#15. A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse.

Stephen Richards

#16. Toil, comrade," he said, "is the highest aim of our lives. Who does not toil, shall not eat." The book was filled. The official applied his rubber stamp to the last page. The stamp bore a globe overshadowed by a crossed sickle and hammer.

Ayn Rand

#17. I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

Norah Jones

#18. His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity

Ann Coulter

#19. But the pain and fear are no longer my life. They're only moments. Moments that are constantly overshadowed with every minute I spend with Tate

Colleen Hoover

#20. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.

Khaled Hosseini

#21. Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, you are not forgotten. No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#22. I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually go before old fears overshadowed the warmth.

J. Lynn

#23. The love you do have in your life should not be overshadowed by the love you don't

Steven Aitchison

#24. Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#25. With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.

Talib Kweli

#26. Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#27. That part of us that is meant to lead us in life, from which we are meant to lead, and from which we are meant to have guidance. The very thing that compels us to breathe, compels us to find hope in the midst of darkness - that part of us gets buried and overshadowed by fear.

Rod Stryker

#28. human beings are overshadowed by anxiety because of our divided selves. I

Alan W. Watts

#29. The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Dickens

#30. Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.

Ronnie Musgrove

#31. From the very moment of Kanga's appearance the pastoral playground is overshadowed by doubt and guilt, for the all-too-loving anima-Woman has pitched her temple here!

Frederick C. Crews

#32. fear was overshadowed by the awe of something beautiful in the chaos.

Joe Hart

#33. The need to write overshadowed everything. I needed to get down the words more than I needed oxygen to breathe. I was almost feverish with it.

Autumn Doughton

#34. It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man's triumph over nature.

Richard W. Kelly

#35. Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

Olympia Snowe

#36. Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.

Jennifer Smith

#37. I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love was deep and silent - and therefore easily overshadowed.

Polly Shulman

#38. Careful, human." Grimalkin appeared on the corner of the stage, overshadowed by the dead chimera. "Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.

Julie Kagawa

#39. It was the first time either of them had ever held another's hand, and for them alone, the immensity of what unfolded that night was overshadowed by the perfect wonderment of fingers intertwined - as though this was what hands had always been for, and not for holding weapons at all.

Laini Taylor

#40. As a self-described Guadalupe girl, Lupe was sensitive to Guadalupe being overshadowed by the "Mary Monster." Lupe not only meant that Mary was the most dominant of the Catholic Church's "stable" of virgins; Lupe believed that the Virgin Mary was also "a domineering virgin.

John Irving

#41. A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#42. Women are practically invisible on the pages of Canadian history textbooks, too often overshadowed by the feats of famous men.

Merna Forster

#43. Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay

#44. I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.

Alicia Kobishop

#45. Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

Wynton Marsalis

#46. The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space.

John F. Kennedy

#47. His incredible memory did not desert him in this phase of his life. Mentally he was still a giant who overshadowed all around him.

Heinz Linge

#48. It is quite easy to allow the gospel to become overshadowed by our own efforts to grow spiritually. Spiritual disciplines serve as gateways to cherishing the gospel, not as substitutes for the gospel.

Gloria Furman

#49. What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She wasn't a bad person, but she might was well be.

Sonja Yoerg

#50. When will that be? After all your secrets are told. So, never. My illusions have been overshadowed by harsh, cold fact.

Lilah Pace

#51. The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy

Frank Vetro

#52. The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

Todd Stocker

#53. The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Heather Brooke

#54. And I want to become a woman I can love. I want to meet women who love themselves, who are alive, who are not debased, overshadowed, wiped out.

Helene Cixous

#55. Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

Joseph Conrad