“It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our government. It's like, come on, why is this scary? Jesus, every generation before you was willing to kick ass.” GovernmentFatherJesusParentGenerationsWillingShadowMurderScaryAssKicksOur FatherCrushedMillennialsKick Ass Author:Cody Wilson
“I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.” ThinkingMenWantShowsHappensDealsSituationStreetsShadowConcernAllowingHomelessTravesty Author:Barack Obama
“The media has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race, and he has triumphed over them at every turn - and they can't stand that, either. And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump. So now it's join forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will. And even that is not distancing Trump's supporters from him. They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsHas BeensStatesMomentsGovernmentTurnsForceRaceMediaTrumpQuietHappeningsShadowArmySupporterFuriousSabotageInvisibility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds a little shallow, but if I imagine the shadow life, where I didn't get that chance, and all the ways my negative inclinations would have bloomed if I hadn't gotten the attention, but also the creative outlet ... I'm not actually that happy. I have multiplicities. My happiness blooms and it wilts.” IfsWayLittlesWantedSoundChanceAttentionCreativeImagineShadowNegativeTablesShallowInclinationOutletsMake Me HappyMultiplicityCreative Outlets Author:George Saunders
“There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only thing that I say to myself is, in the spirit of that quote from the Gnostic Gospels: Writing is a way to let all that stuff out into the sun.” WayWritingKindSpiritEnergyStuffSidesSunCreativeShadowNegativeCreative EnergyShadow Side Author:George Saunders
“That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into a grocery store to rob it, and I have a gun. The guy may give you the money in the cash register. I'm using the gun even if I don't shoot. Well that's nuclear weapons - essential to post-war deterrence - they cast a shadow over everything.” IfsGivingYearsWellsKindMayMadeSaidWarGuyEssentialsWeaponsGunShadowCastsStoresNuclearPostsCashNuclear WeaponsGroceriesRegisterGrocery StoresPost WarDeterrence Author:Noam Chomsky
“Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.” MenGivingFactsLyingStrongLeaderSuccessfulGroupsShadowOrganizationNotionPersistentGreat LeaderGreat WomenStrong LeadersSuccessful Organizations Author:Warren G. Bennis
“We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any desire to be in the shadows. My vision isn't marketing. Some people want to sell 6 million albums. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just not what I do. I'd rather look at a piece of work and say it's great rather than it's successful.” PeopleWorldWantWritingBelieveLooksDesireChoicesVisionMillionsSuccessfulPiecesShadowSellsMarketingAlbumsBelieve In Me Author:Patti Smith
“It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. It's called, simply, PAYBACK. Jennifer didn't want to do a transliteration of the book, a kind of illustrated version, but to go into the core of the book: owing and being owed, paying and paying back, on all sorts of levels. So she found real-life, visceral stories that embodied the themes of the book.” WantKindMadeBookRealStoriesFilmFoundSidesWealthLevelsDirectorsShadowExcitingDebtCoreReal LifeVersionsLandscapeThemeOwingJenniferVisceralPaybackShadow Side Author:Margaret Atwood
“The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.” WayKindEndsTogetherFilmUsedNationsSidesWealthAnswersBloodGoes OnBirthMessagesShadowPrisonDebtOilInstanceExplorationDocumentariesWovenSpillsTomatoesSensuousPaybackFeudsOil SpillUnderpaidAlbanianPrison SystemShadow Side Author:Margaret Atwood
“I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!” WantMadeFilmSidesWealthShadowDebtMakersDelightedPaybackShadow Side Author:Margaret Atwood
“The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.” MindHeartDoeRunningOrderUnderstandingQualityDiseaseEternalShadowConcernConcernedChaosNeglectDisorderHeart And Mind Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.” WorldImportantWarMatterStatesRealitySeemsOrderGivenFiveActivityMajorsShadowWestMissionsAbsencePermanentOrgansSplitsCastingIdeologicalWorld OrderInappropriatePreventionRemnantsConstrainVetoGeopolitical Author:Richard A. Falk
“When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the total global transformation of a market. To achieve that, you need low prices and an attractive offering. It's about trying to make a positive impact on a big scale.” NeedsTryingBigsJobsGrowsGrowing UpAchieveLowsShadowTransformationImpactBillsScalesDefinedAttractiveGatesOfferingPositive Impact Author:Reed Hastings
“We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.” HardGamesEventsHugeShadowArguingFantasticLife ExperienceShrinksMinutiaeShadow Of DeathGame ChangersWild Life Author:Bryan Fuller
“I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.” KnowsNeedsSometimesMy OwnStepsStageCreationBalancePaperShadowTricksPensPerpetualOngoingSteps ForwardCenter Stage Author:Allison Joseph
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” EvilWalksShadowValleysShadow Of DeathFear No Evil Author:David
“If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.” IfsWayLittlesMomentsFeelingsSeemsDesireVoiceActingAttentionDoubtHavensFiguresParticularAdultsShadowPaidBarsAddressesCandyActing OutCandy Bar Author:Danny Boyle
“I think a lot of people vote in fear. People like Donald Trump are good at casting this shadow of fear over people, making them believe if they don't vote for him then the terrorists are going to get them or whatever. All his ways are to scare people to vote for him. It's so sad.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayBelieveTrumpShadowVoteTerroristScareCastingSo Sad Author:Jim James
“You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.” LooksLongSeemsMovingOrderNaturalMiddlePeriodsConflictBehaviorShadowAreasDestructionCalmVariousBritishEastHopefulEmpiresMiddle EastAsiaAnticipateBritish EmpireNatural OrderLong Shadows Author:Roma Tearne
“In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to the ends of the earth. And I live frequently on the spine of the continent, near the Great Divide. Then there's the side of it being the real energy center for a truly post-postmodernist poetry mind, which is also archaic, because we can still be close to the land.” IfsWayMindStillsRealEndsMatterEarthAmericaEnergySidesLandShadowPostsDividesContinentsSpine Author:Anne Waldman
“We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.” ThinkingTodayResultsCivilizationPagesShadowDirectWesternBiblicalDnaWorldviewWestern CivilizationIlliteracyBiblical Worldview Author:Hank Hanegraaff
“If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the last time I met him in 1997 in Afghanistan. And bin Laden said to me "From this mountain, Mr. Robert, upon which you are sitting, we beat the Russian army and helped break the Soviet Union. And I pray to God that he allows us to turn America into a shadow of itself." When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.” WorldLongWarRememberGuyBreakPrayingMountainShadowArmyIntelligentTradePlanningAfghanistanSovietLast TimeSoviet UnionI PrayBin LadenPraying To GodWorld Trade Center Author:Robert Fisk
“The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again and again that, when there is an apparatus for censorship that filters all writing, an apparatus comes into being in every writer's mind that says: "Don't write this, they won't allow it to be published." But the true writer must ignore these murmurings. The true writer must write. In the end, it will be published one day, on the condition that the writer writes the truth and does not dissemble.” WritingMindOne DayShadowIslamicNightmareCensorshipMy Thoughts Author:Simin Behbahani
“As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like Highland Park, have long histories of barring Jewish and black people. That history that has always existed has come out of the shadows because of the social and political climate.” PeopleMindLongPoliticalBlackRacismShadowTrainTrackNeighborhoodBlack People Author:Christian Picciolini
“One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.” ThinkingBookPresidentSeriousGloryHumorousShadowShameMonumentPresident Nixon Author:David Small
“The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.” RepublicanShadow Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it cast, the one thing it didn't do was strip people of their humanity. And I wish that all of us were as strong as the people that walked down those steps and got on those boats.” PeopleThinkingHumanityStrongWishEconomicShadowSlaveryHorribleBoatTragic Author:Lonnie Bunch
“The first total eclipse that I witnessed was in 1970. I was an amateur astronomer. But after I saw the total eclipse, it couldn't be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, because it was too spectacular. I needed another eclipse fix, because I got hooked on the shadow.” ShadowEclipse Author:Fred Espenak
“The Iraq War has thrown such a heavy shadow on Afghanistan that you can't hardly get any news about that now. I went to Afghanistan this year and spent more time there than I did in Iraq ... just 'cause they were forgotten about, and I wanted them to know that I appreciated it.” WarShadowForgottenAfghanistanAppreciatedIraq War Author:Toby Keith
“Half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique. That is a big problem. And so the shadow continues to fall.” ChildrenProblemFallShadowTerrorismPornographyGang Author:James Comey
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.” FaithAngelShadowAdversityCastsUnfamiliar Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art classes and then I started studying different artists. As you study paintings, you see light and shadow, of course - Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix. You start to understand the relationship between people and art, and images. For me, between movies that I watched and art, it was like, I'd love to make moving art. Moving pictures.” PeopleArtDifferentMovingArtistStudyPaintingShadow Author:Antoine Fuqua
“My outlook on life is to be true. To take risks. To love the shadows as well as the light. To find your task. To recognise your task. To be active.” RiskShadowBeing True Author:Juliette Binoche
“I went to film school and studied Alfred Hitchcock. I knew of Alma Reville existence, but had no idea really who she was or how influential she was on him. She stayed in the shadows. Go online, and there are hardly any images or film of her. She really stayed out of the limelight on purpose. She didn't want it, and I think that's one of the reasons that she's really lost in the shadows of Hitchcock's history to a degree.” ThinkingReasonSchoolFilmPurposeExistenceShadowOnlineInfluential Author:Sacha Gervasi
“Contrary to Warhol's 15 minutes of fame, I think that today in front of insatiable curiosity of the crowd, we would be better off to remain secret as long as possible, work in the denser part of shadows.” ThinkingLongTodaySecretFameShadowCuriosityInsatiable Author:Daniel Buren
“The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.” MenFilmInterestAudienceHe ManCoupleHusbandShadowMetaphorPoint Of ViewLove StoryConquest Author:Xavier Durringer
“The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my world and, hopefully, the world outside of me into a version that makes sense of it. Viciousness requires the same precision as love does.” WorldWritingTryingFeelingsCircumstancesShadowProgramVariousHopefullyMake SenseManifest Author:Stephen Dunn
“One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then life starts to confine us inside our small realities. And then, the shadow of those other possible lives stays to lurk us and you can't shake it off, since it was so easy, it'd have been so easy to lead another life. We make twenty thousand small choices a day, and maybe one of those choices is the one that will take us to a completely different life. If you stop to think about it, it is vertiginous, hypnotizing and distressing.” ThinkingWorldDifferentRealityChoicesEasyTroubleShadowUpsetCapability Author:Rosa Montero
“We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly over time. And, frankly, we learned how to listen to ourselves. It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.” PeopleWritingLongSongAttentionShadowMake Sense Author:Matt Berninger
“The mobility of the eye is such a fundamental treasure that we have, and that coexists with sensation. On the dance floor, you are totally in reality, while also experiencing this dream imagery of changing colors and wet surfaces of skin. Sometimes it's the shadow outline in the strobe light, and in another moment it's the closeup of an armpit that you're looking into. I'm not photographing all the time, but it's something that I actually see all the time, and not just on the dance floor.” SometimesMomentsDreamRealityEyeShadowSkinsImageryCoexistDance Floor Author:Wolfgang Tillmans
“The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols. Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality. Here is why inquiry is such a powerful tool when compared to simple advocacy. Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.” WorldRealityLanguageSimplePowerfulWallShadowArguingIncompleteAdvocacy Author:Alan Briskin
“Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends and allies stopped Gadhafi's forces in their tracks. A coalition that included the United States, NATO and Arab nations persevered to protect Libyan civilians. So this is a momentous day in the history of Libya. The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted, and with this enormous promise the Libyan people now have a great responsibility: to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gadhafi's dictatorship.” PeopleHelpingDarkResponsibilityPromiseProtectShadowUltimateDemocraticTrackTyrannyDictatorshipNatoGreat Responsibility Author:Barack Obama
“It's important to view fashion as personal and creative - even for brides. When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else, they want you to be who you are. If you never wear blue eye shadow, why would you put it on on your wedding day? If you wear your hair simply, why would you suddenly dye it a different color and get a big 'do? To me it's about respect and self-understanding and honesty.” GivingImportantDifferentEyeCreativeAdviceLove YouFashionHonestyShadowWho You AreAsk MeBeing YourselfBridesBlue EyesBest AdviceWedding DayOur Wedding Author:Vera Wang
“We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.” Shadow Author:Maggie Smith
“Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating.” EyeBlackShadowMysteriousMakeup Author:David Bowie
“If depression has been viewed as a taboo subject in the church, then suicide and suicidal thoughts are the darkest secret of all. Talking about it doesn't make it more real or powerful; it brings it out of the shadows into the light and love of Christ.” RealChristChurchPowerfulSecretShadowSuicideSuicidalTabooSuicidal Thoughts Author:Sheila Walsh
“I spent a long time in the shadows. I always had this feeling that I was the only one going through stuff, because I kept it a secret. Once I decided to use my voice in a way that could potentially help others, I found there were a lot of people like me - a lot of kids left behind. So, I wanted to call attention to the issue.” PeopleLongHelpingFeelingsKidsSecretAttentionShadowHelping OthersLeft Behind Author:Diane Guerrero
“I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look at Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. It proves beyond any shadow of doubt that violence has declined dramatically throughout the centuries. There are various reasons for it: the rise of the state, Leviathan, the monopoly of violence, children's rights, animal rights. They're all positive signs.” ThinkingBookReasonDoneLiteratureAnimalDoubtViolenceProveAngelShadowVariousAnimal Rights Author:Martin Amis