A Quote by Josh Billings

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

Josh Billings

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Casts Holy Peace Shadow Soft Virtue

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.

Marcel Duchamp

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

George Steiner

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

Terence McKenna

The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

Margaret Thatcher

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

Louis Kahn

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Neil Gaiman

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

Louis Kahn

Love is the light that casts no shadow.

Elizabeth Lowell

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

George R. R. Martin

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

Publilius Syrus

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Winston Churchill

... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began to realize that the edge of the negative represents the shadow of the camera, the opaqueness of matter. It casts a shadow on the negative, so it's a photogram as well.