We Cast A Shadow Quotes

#1. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

E. M. Forster

#2. Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

Cordell Hull

#3. Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light.

Iva Kenaz

#4. For suppose, and mind it narrowly, that life is simply a shadow bodies cast inside themselves when struck by all those queerly various bits and particles, those pieces, those streams of - what? - of science. Death in such a case would be only another arrangement.

William H Gass

#5. She believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

Henry Van Dyke

#7. Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Janos Kadar

#8. Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#9. The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.

Emil M. Cioran

#10. Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.

Bradley Chicho

#11. SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.

Kevin J. Anderson

#12. I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

Todd McFarlane

#13. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version.

George Eliot

#15. The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead.

Adelaide Crapsey

#17. Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

John Dewey

#18. The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.

Jon Foreman

#19. With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

Vhils

#20. Power resides only where men believe it resides. [ ... ] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

George R R Martin

#21. Heroin is a stand-in, a stop-gap, a mask, for what we believe is missing. Like the "objects" seen by Plato's man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can't see directly.

Ann Marlowe

#22. Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. My countrymen, we hold a rich deposit in trust for ourselves and for all our brethren of mankind. It is the fire of liberty. If it becomes extinguished, our darkened land will cast a mournful shadow over the nations. If it lives, its blaze will enlighten and gladden the whole earth.

Francis Scott Key

#24. The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

Albert Camus

#25. My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive.

Terry Tempest Williams

#26. Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Dean Koontz

#27. When the towers fell ..." They cast such a shadow, and it stretched out over our lives. We grew up in that shadow. "And it made everything seem so trivial.

Stefan Mohamed

#28. The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

R.S. Thomas

#29. A whimsical choice, perhaps a dangerous choice, but a shadow should bear some resemblance to the shape that cast it.

Brent Weeks

#30. I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

E.B. White

#31. I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

Sadegh Hedayat

#32. They say some people ' cast a thin shadow', a turn of phrase that fitted my father like a glove. Too weak, too kind, he couldn't even say goodbye to my mother and me when he left. Weak and pathetic, pathetic and sad - that Dad.

Rika Yokomori

#33. Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God; face the brighter light and cast behind the dark shadows!

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. The first light had cast the first shadow.

Grant Morrison

#35. The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Lao-Tzu

#36. I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

Bill Luff

#37. The diagnosis of high-frequency deafness cast a faint shadow over his happiness, but their mutual enjoyment of sex was not much affected, the sounds which accompany it being mostly non-verbal and low frequency in wavelength. Inevitably,

David Lodge

#38. History is the long shadow cast by the past upon the future. Shadows, by nature, lack details.

Ken Liu

#39. Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Diane Setterfield

#40. Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun.

Elise Kova

#41. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

Mervyn Peake

#42. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#43. Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

Maxine Kumin

#44. We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.

Kesh

#45. At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

W.G. Sebald

#46. Let the stars illuminate the basked love of your life. Never let the raw renderings cast a shadow over your sparkling heart. Let the lament of your soul become the music of your own body! Be your own master!

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#47. In the shadow my father has cast over my entire life, you are the only light I can see anymore. And, whatever the cost, I refuse to let that light be extinguished

Morgan Rhodes

#48. I thought this the first time I laid eyes on you, that the shadow you cast on the ground is only half as dark as that of ordinary people.

Anonymous

#49. Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

Doug Fetherling

#50. You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon

Lou Anders