Pastoral Resources

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.