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I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Sophocles

ancient Greek playwright

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Peter Fonda

American actor (1940-2019)

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Sophocles

ancient Greek playwright

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875-1961)

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Lucille Roybal Allard

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564-1616)

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

Whitney Houston

American singer, actress, and film producer (1963-2012)

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

William Irwin Thompson

American poet and social critic

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