Shadow Knows Quotes

#1. I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was ... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. The simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. - Leo Tolstoy, 1897

Michael Lewis

#3. When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

Scott Dixon

#4. It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#5. Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains, which, coming to light, step after step, cause us to shine.

Rene Char

#6. We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

King Hussein I

#7. Either people challenge each other to the point where they don't like each other or they become complacent about each other's feedback and no longer benefit from the relationship.

Ben Horowitz

#8. You have to live HAVOC to understand havoc

Corey Taylor

#9. In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

Julia Quinn

#10. Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and who knows what he'll do with those words? Ye might as weel nail a man's shadow tae the wall!

Terry Pratchett

#11. The furious love of God knows no shadow of alteration or change. It is reliable. And always tender.

Brennan Manning

#12. There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

H.P. Lovecraft

#13. Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

James Thurber

#14. He knows that something somewhere has to break/He sees the family home now looming in the headlights/The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache/
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage/on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

Sting

#15. The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers.

Kai Greene

#16. The promise of easy money is but a wolf's trap laid out for sheep seeking taller grass.

James Jean-Pierre

#17. Everyone knows if a Republican comes out of the closet and sees a gay shadow, it means six more years of a Democratic administration.

Jon Stewart

#18. People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

Peter Thiel

#19. Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.

Peggy Toney Horton

#20. And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.
- Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

Tim Crouch

#22. But life is too short to masturbate silently,

Asa Akira

#23. The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#24. I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.

John Clare

#25. Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Og Mandino

#26. Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

Stephen Mitchell

#27. I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Anonymous

#28. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

Alice Hoffman

#30. And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

Julian Castro

#31. I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#32. Later that night I wake up screaming. A rat is at me, biting and biting me, and I cannot move.

Beverly Lowry