Umbra Quotes

#1. Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

Horace

#3. The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
[Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Ovid

#4. Transit umbra, lux permanet

Jay McLean

#5. Pulvis et umbra sumus," said James once, out loud in class, after hearing too many whispers. "My father says that sometimes. We are but dust and shadows. Maybe I'm just -getting a head start on all of you.

Cassandra Clare

#6. I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have very high expectations for Obama, and I am extremely hopeful that he will bring great lasting change not just to America, but to the entire world.

Texas Battle

#7. It seems that you can't make people love or care for something that they don't already love or care for. They either see your value and act accordingly or they don't and you move on to someone that does.

Carlos Salinas

#8. What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

#9. All colours are arbitrary.

Carl Sagan

#10. Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Camille Paglia

#11. People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. It would, of course, have to look like an accident.

Anne Taintor

#13. Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

Claude M. Bristol

#14. This, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary,

George Orwell

#15. Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

Jeremy Piven

#16. To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#17. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

Rebecca Solnit