#shadow

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

— Claude McKay

#development #dwarfed #grow #human #human beings

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#bag #boxing #heavy #i #i do

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#darker #feelings #our #shadows #simpler

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#last #liberty #men #privilege #quits

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#best #boundaries #death #divide #ends

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#also #architect #assign #fails #forms

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#being #darkness #daylight #into #moon

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

#face #fall #shadows #sun #turn

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. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ceases #deprived #enjoyed #just #light