#shadowy

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ↗

— Amy Levy

#creature #flesh #husbands #lover #made

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#america #betrayal #ever #failure #hopes

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#best #boundaries #death #divide #ends

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#among #below #extensive #glow #gorgeous

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#been #being #ends #forces #haven

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires... ↗

— John Geddes

#self #shadowy #motivational

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#back #comes #fear #forth #future