In Praise Of Shadows Quotes

The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some reason. We are attacked as phonies, pretenders, even perverts, just for being who we are. There are people who wish for us to go back into the shadows, the closet, never to return.

Many of these people who wish to deny us our very legitimacy, who denounce us as mentally ill deviants, spend an hour each week paying homage to an ever-present, yet non-interventionist man in the sky. They go to courts across the land to defend their right to praise that uncorroborated deity at the expense of other people's civil liberties. To them, we the living, the transgender people who walk the earth, are fake, but the man up there, He is real. ~ Ian Thomas Malone

Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. For him his dress, his deportment was no different than staying downwind in the shadows of trees when hunting, blending into the world of those he hunted, rather than standing out from it. Once he had excelled at the emu dance & the kangaroo dance; then his talent led him to the whitefella dance, only now no-one was left of his tribe to stand around the fire & laugh & praise his talent for observation & stealthy imitation.
The whites have no law, he told Capois Death, no dreaming. Their way of life made no sense whatsoever. Still, he did not hate them or despise them. They were stupid beyond belief, but they had a power, & somehow their stupidity & their power were, in Tracker Marks's mind, inextricably connected. But how? he asked Capois Death. How can power & ignorance sleep together? Questions to which Capois Death had no answer. ~ Richard Flanagan

It's a date, isn't it," she realized. "Praise to the Virgin Scribe, I have a date!"
Trez laughed, the sound a rumble in his broad chest. "You'd better believe you do. And I'ma treat you like a queen. My queen." ~Trez

'The Shadows' page 205 ~ J.R. Ward

He reminded himself as he turned another corner - glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there - the deed was the thing, not the praise. ~ Raymond E. Feist

Only he whose bright lyre
has sounded in shadows
may, looking onward, restore
his infinite praise.
Only he who has eaten
poppies with the dead
will not lose ever again
the gentlest chord.
Though the image upon the pool
often grows dim:
Know and be still.
Inside the Double World
all voices become
eternally mild. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

As I walk through this valley of shadows and death I curse not the wicked, I praise not the blessed. ~ Chris Motionless

Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies; Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness; Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings; Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute; Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply. ~ Umar

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible ~ C.S. Lewis

People blush at praise
not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. ~ C.S. Lewis

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them. ~ Bernard Baruch

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. ~ Phineas Fletcher

But most people are content with a life among shadows. They give no thought to what is casting the shadows. They think shadows are all there are, never realizing even that they are, in fact, shadows. And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul. ~ Jostein Gaarder

Praise God we don't have to hide scars ~ Jonny Diaz

O write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. ~ Samuel Johnson

Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise. ~ Dale Carnegie

I will praise any man that will praise me. ~ William Shakespeare

Self praise is no praise at all. ~ Lord Byron

He looked at the daylight shadows of a yellow hue, dancing with the firelight shadows in blue on the whitewashed chimney corner, but there was nothing in shadows. ~ Thomas Hardy

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. ~ Karl Barth

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad. ~ Charles Fillmore

Praise, Praise, Praise a child for the good they commit and the wrongs they rectify. ~ Asa Don Brown

The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation? ~ Dada Bhagwan

We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep. ~ Hugh Howey

Our praise builds up equity in Heaven ~ Pastor Rod W. Larkins

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins. ~ St. Jerome

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Long live the Halflings! Praise them with great praise! ~ Anonymous

Those who praise themselves do not prevail. ~ Laozi

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. ~ Studs Terkel

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. ~ Rumi

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. ~ Arnold Bennett

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly. ~ Catherine The Great

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Be careful what you can not understand. The blackest shadows smile in the morning", Lyamnay, from "Lyamnay's Shadows ~ Annarita Faggioni

False praise is worse than no praise. ~ Felix Dennis

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. ~ David Hockney

I don't want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat. ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance. ~ Frederick Lenz

What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
Advance it into notice, that its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too. ~ William Cowper

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. ~ Roger Ascham

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. ~ Stephen Baldwin

Though strength be wanting, the will to action
Merits praise. ~ Ovid

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe. ~ John Dryden

And if I please you so, my lover,
Remember praise is comely. ~ Countee Cullen

Praise adds nothing to beauty
makes it neither better nor worse. ~ Marcus Aurelius

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me. ~ Joan Rivers

The best kind of praise is intelligent praise. ~ Rachel Heffington

If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him. ~ Umar

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe. ~ Jean Rostand

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise. ~ Moliere

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her. ~ William Shakespeare

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. ~ Solon

What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they paint shadows in European art? Shadows are because of optics. Optics need shadows and strong light. Strong light makes the deepest shadows. It took me a few years to realize fully that the art historians didn't grasp that. There are a lot of interesting new things, ideas, pictures. ~ David Hockney

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing. ~ Henry Jacobsen

Through the side window, a screen of late-afternoon sunlight is projected onto the wall. Shadows of birds flit across it.
Some shadows are sharp, some shadows are blurry.
I've seen them before in another time and place. ~ David Mitchell

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

Life's a bank that gives back to you what you put in it,but with interest ~ Azeh Praise

ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER. ~ Nellie Bly

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. ~ Ray Bradbury

There was a philosopher who said that all of life is just shadows. He said that people were just sitting in a cave, watching shadows on the cave wall. Aye - shadows of something much bigger and grander than themselves. ~ Lemony Snicket

With his mask and my sword, we could subdue even the shadows. ~ Nadine Brandes

In life, everything awaits in the shadows for the suitable time to come out! All wait silently in the nooks! Observe the shadows and the nooks to guess what will happen! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

They remain shadows. Two sepia shadows on an old snapshot, two barely moving shadows in my head, shadows whose few
remaining words and acts I have invented. Perhaps I only want their forgiveness for having forgotten them. I remember their deaths, but not their lives. Yet they're inside me, flowing unknown in my blood and moving unrecognized in my skull. ~ Margaret Laurence

Find at least one person each day, and more if possible, in whom you see some good quality that is worthy of praise, and praise it. Remember, however, that this praise must not be in the nature of cheap, insincere flattery; it must be genuine. Speak your words of praise with such earnestness that they will impress those to whom you speak. Then watch what happens. You will have rendered those whom you praise a decided benefit of great value to them, ~ Napoleon Hill

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone. ~ John Ruskin

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example? ~ Charles Spurgeon

He knew that all of them were shadows: the chanters, the dead, the living. All shadows, moving across this landscape of mountains and valleys, changing the pattern of things as they moved but leaving nothing changed when they left. Only the shadows themselves could change. ~ Karl Marlantes

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. ~ Billy Joel

Praise and disgrace cause fear. ~ Laozi

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. ~ Taliesin

Heroes, I've learned, don't always wear white.
Sometimes they come from the darkness, shadows among shadows. ~ Nalini Singh

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever. ~ Watchman Nee

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise. ~ Kate Langley Bosher

Premature Praise [10w]
It's too early to give praise
if they still breathe. ~ Beryl Dov

Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them. ~ Ken Blanchard

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly. ~ John C. Maxwell

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise. ~ Dean Smith

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. ~ Max Beerbohm

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man. ~ Owen Feltham

All shadows whisper of the sun. ~ Emanuel Carnevali

I've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

A bard whom there were none to praise,
And very few to read. ~ Hartley Coleridge

God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You. ~ Lysa TerKeurst

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations. ~ Richard Steele

Praise someone today and you'll unleash their potential forever. ~ Farshad Asl

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. ~ Moliere

It will end in praise, if you are not singing praises, it hasn't ended. ~ Flo Falayi

Encouragement and praISE SHOULD BE ENDLESS. fAUTH BRINGS THEM TOGETHER. ~ Terry Alex

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public. ~ Myles Munroe

I don't know that praise is always a good thing. ~ Paul Dano

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy. ~ William Law

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. ~ Hanif Kureishi

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable. ~ Selma Lagerlof

Praise and worship is not about how talented you are or what a wonderful and beautiful voice you have. It's all about denying yourself, let God to be God in your life and praise Him with all your heart and soul. ~ Euginia Herlihy