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

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
reputation shadow men

We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they’ll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure. And we have specific metrics that are in the bill. I’m not going to get into what they are...

Charles Schumer
shadow agreement people
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. by Charles Spurgeon

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.

Charles Spurgeon
shadow mercy prayer
Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will... by Charles W. Field

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

Charles W. Field
enlightenment sunshine shadow

The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

Charlie Pierce
wall shadow monsters
The shadows are as important as the light. by Charlotte Bronte

The shadows are as important as the light.

Charlotte Bronte
shadow important light

For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.

Charlotte Bronte
shadow long people

I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

Charlotte Church
restaurants shadow thinking

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

Chris Abani
encounters shadow ordinary

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

Chris Johnson
shadow different way

Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?

Christiaan Huygens
shadow earth beautiful

The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.

Christina Rossetti
shadow flower life

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Christopher Golden
shadow kings long
Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk by Christopher Moore

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

Christopher Moore
shadow chocolate hot
Fear cannot touch me… by Christopher Rice

Fear cannot touch me…

Christopher Rice
shadow darkness fear

How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

Chuck Palahniuk
shadow eye want

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Chuck Palahniuk
wall shadow men
A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion. by Chuck Palahniuk

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

Chuck Palahniuk
illusion shadow reflection

Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.

Chuck Palahniuk
shadow crazy fall
The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there. by Chuck Palahniuk

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

Chuck Palahniuk
shadow girl gone
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