1.
Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade,
On that confusion which thy death has made.
Phillis Wheatley
Gaze back, undying specter,
On the disarray bequeathed by thy passing.
2.
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.
Kobayashi Issa
3.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
Alexander Pope
4.
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
Audrey Hepburn
5.
Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.
Lubov Azria
6.
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
W. S. Merwin
7.
Lo and behold! God made this
starry wold,
The maggot and the mold; lo and
behold!
He taught the grass contentment
blade by blade,
The sanctity of sameness in a shade.
Nathalia Crane
8.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
John le Carre
12.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Alfred Marshall
13.
I think love keeps on changing every day.
It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.
Ville Valo
14.
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
Charles Dickens
15.
I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
Neil Cavuto
16.
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.
Henry David Thoreau
17.
Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.
Blake Shelton
18.
I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
Laura Mvula
19.
Timeless and versatile, Toasted Almond is an organic shade that speaks to authenticity and all that is natural.
Leatrice Eiseman
20.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson
21.
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
22.
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
Vladimir Nabokov
24.
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibar tree,
And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil,
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.
Banjo Paterson
25.
One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
C.P. Cavafy
27.
I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.
Amani
28.
That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.
Lupita Nyong'o
29.
But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
Anne Rice
30.
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
Virginia Woolf
31.
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
Homer
32.
Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.
Winfield Scott
33.
Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
Dakota Johnson
34.
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
Bill Brandt
36.
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!
Bill Henson
37.
What e'er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
William Shakespeare
39.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
Laura Schlessinger
40.
Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.
Rumi
41.
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
Jan Morris
42.
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
Thomas Hood
43.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Lord Byron
45.
I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
Elizabeth Hurley
46.
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems
Walt Whitman
47.
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
50.
Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali