Quotes about Pale

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. Votes: 5

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Votes: 5

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. Votes: 3

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank! Votes: 3

Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world Votes: 3

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling. Votes: 3

Shane looked"¦pale. Pale and shaken and"”how predictable was this?"”pissed. Votes: 3

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands. Votes: 3

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. Votes: 3

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say. Votes: 3

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right. Votes: 3

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. Votes: 3

In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. Votes: 3

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Votes: 3

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings Votes: 3

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought. Votes: 3

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. Votes: 3

There's music along the river For Love wanders there,Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair." Votes: 3

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. Votes: 3

I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! Votes: 3

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.... Votes: 3

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down. Votes: 3

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.] Votes: 3

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. Votes: 3

Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands,Silent above the flowers, her children lost,Slain by the arrows of the early Frost. Votes: 3

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Votes: 3

Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless. Votes: 3

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. Votes: 3

Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine. Votes: 3

Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream... Votes: 3

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India. Votes: 3

There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together. Votes: 3

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead. Votes: 3

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight? Votes: 2

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. Votes: 2

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Votes: 2

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light. Votes: 2

Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Votes: 2

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. Votes: 2

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. Votes: 2

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. Votes: 2

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. Votes: 2

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems. Votes: 2

Each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear. Votes: 2

If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. Votes: 2

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. Votes: 2

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. Votes: 2

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase. Votes: 2

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised. Votes: 2

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty. Votes: 1

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan. Votes: 1

I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini. Votes: 1

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. Votes: 1

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind. Votes: 1

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. Votes: 1

I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost. Votes: 1

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. Votes: 1

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. Votes: 1

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate. Votes: 1

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. Votes: 1

Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. Votes: 1

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Votes: 1

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic. Votes: 1

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. Votes: 1

I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money. Votes: 1

I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice. Votes: 1

I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much. Votes: 1

Go sit down and look pale. Votes: 0

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean. Votes: 0

Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts Votes: 0

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues Votes: 0

Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes Votes: 0

The first pale blossom of the unripened year. Votes: 0

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. Votes: 0

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. Votes: 0

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery. Votes: 0

Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison. Votes: 0

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away. Votes: 0

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty. Votes: 0

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives Votes: 0

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new. Votes: 0

Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices. Votes: 0

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse... Votes: 0

I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene. Votes: 0

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. Votes: 0

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother Votes: 0

I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach. Votes: 0

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small. Votes: 0

Because I'm a pale person, I take care of my skin religiously. Votes: 0

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. Votes: 0

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars. Votes: 0

Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy! Votes: 0

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC Votes: 0

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. Votes: 0

Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around. Votes: 0

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. Votes: 0

Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges. Votes: 0

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. Votes: 0

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity. Votes: 0

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me Votes: 0

I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career. Votes: 0

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. Votes: 0

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Votes: 0

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun." Votes: 0

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire. Votes: 0

He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. Votes: 0

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. Votes: 0

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale? Votes: 0

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! Votes: 0

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. Votes: 0

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs. Votes: 0

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Votes: 0

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight. Votes: 0

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill. Votes: 0

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. Votes: 0

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst. Votes: 0

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. Votes: 0

I’m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white. Votes: 0

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. Votes: 0

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process. Votes: 0

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now. Votes: 0

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. Votes: 0

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. Votes: 0

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. Votes: 0

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains Votes: 0

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out. Votes: 0

I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair. Votes: 0

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. Votes: 0

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward. Votes: 0

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade. Votes: 0

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged. Votes: 0

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight. Votes: 0

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else. Votes: 0

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite. Votes: 0

For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,on the star tree,pale with luminousocean leaves. Votes: 0

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover. Votes: 0

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Votes: 0

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn. Votes: 0

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. Votes: 0

I'd like to be a bit less pale because I feel like I look sort of ill sometimes. Votes: 0

I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away. Votes: 0

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale. Votes: 0

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them. Votes: 0

I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke! Votes: 0

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department! Votes: 0

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. Votes: 0

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm. Votes: 0

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human. Votes: 0

Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I' Votes: 0

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out. Votes: 0

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else Votes: 0

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her. Votes: 0

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. Votes: 0

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself. Votes: 0

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. Votes: 0

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives. Votes: 0

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. Votes: 0

Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale. Votes: 0

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts. Votes: 0

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. Votes: 0

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. Votes: 0

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre. Votes: 0

Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart. Votes: 0

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered"”-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments. Votes: 0

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces Votes: 0

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed. Votes: 0

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. Votes: 0

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. Votes: 0

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. Votes: 0

Clouds pass and disperse.Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?Is it for such I agitate my heart? Votes: 0

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man... Votes: 0

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. Votes: 0

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you? Votes: 0

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Votes: 0

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election Votes: 0

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that. Votes: 0

God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn. Votes: 0

You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane Votes: 0

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison. Votes: 0

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. Votes: 0

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality. Votes: 0

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn. Votes: 0

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. Votes: 0

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking. Votes: 0

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. Votes: 0

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way. Votes: 0

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon. Votes: 0

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat. Votes: 0

Tsukiko sits on the floor in the center of the room, wearing a red kimono. A beating crimson heart in the pale chamber. Votes: 0

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost. Votes: 0

Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind. Votes: 0

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears. Votes: 0

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me. Votes: 0

Love doesn't last. She didn't know how much showed her pale face.Meribah's face softened. Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind. Votes: 0

Ian grinned at her, trailing a pale hand down his chest. "Luscious, aren"Ÿt I, poppet? Go on, stare. I don"Ÿt mind. Votes: 0

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me. Votes: 0

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance. Votes: 0

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. Votes: 0

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving. Votes: 0

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there. Votes: 0

Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow. Votes: 0

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar. Votes: 0

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. Votes: 0

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead. Votes: 0

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches. Votes: 0

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance." Votes: 0

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. Votes: 0

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp. Votes: 0

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.... Votes: 0

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise Votes: 0

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought Votes: 0

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone. Votes: 0

Confused, I asked, "The coven's what?" "Plumber," Ivy said, looking pale as she leaned on Glenn. "You know. Stops leaks?" Oh goodie. I'm a leak. Votes: 0

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here. Votes: 0

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of. Votes: 0

They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more! Votes: 0

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile Votes: 0

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure. Votes: 0

He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem... Votes: 0

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. Votes: 0

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it. Votes: 0

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. Votes: 0

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest. Votes: 0

Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade. Votes: 0

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute. Votes: 0

I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored. Votes: 0

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. Votes: 0

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . . Votes: 0

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean! Votes: 0

Still and pale Thou movest in thy silver veil, Queen of the night! the filmy shroud Of many a mild, transparent cloud Hides, yet adorns thee. Votes: 0

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale! Votes: 0

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale. Votes: 0

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed. Votes: 0

The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.... Votes: 0

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen. Votes: 0

The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again. Votes: 0

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall. Votes: 0

Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy... Votes: 0

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death Votes: 0

The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed. Votes: 0

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is! Votes: 0

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could. Votes: 0

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. Votes: 0

I couldn't believe it. It was unbelievable, that's why. My face was like a frozen fish finger. All rigid and pale. (But obviously not with breadcrumbs on it.) Votes: 0

You made the sobbing white of lilies too,tumbling lightly across a sea of sighs ontheir dreamy way to weeping moonlight throughthe azure incense of the pale horizon!" Votes: 0

David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who`s really saying Donald Trump, you`re out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale. Votes: 0

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night. Votes: 0

It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds. Votes: 0

Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country? Votes: 0

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon Votes: 0

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years. Votes: 0

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) Votes: 0

The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans. Votes: 0

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience. Votes: 0

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best. Votes: 0

English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country! Votes: 0

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria. Votes: 0

I got my red dress on tonight Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight Done my hair up real big beauty queen style High heels off, I'm feeling alive Votes: 0

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. And scissors - that's beyond the pale. Votes: 0

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them. Votes: 0

I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks. Votes: 0

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. Votes: 0

And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34) Votes: 0

At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic. Votes: 0

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men. Votes: 0

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength. Votes: 0

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes. Votes: 0

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. Votes: 0

The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart.... Votes: 0

A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine! Votes: 0

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. Votes: 0

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. Votes: 0

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light. Votes: 0

What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he's pretty pale......What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut. Votes: 0

God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see. Votes: 0

Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches. Votes: 0

Know what suits you. I would never wear brown, because it just doesn't work with my pale skin and dark hair. Also I wouldn't wear flats at night, because I love heels. Votes: 0

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan. Votes: 0

Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother. Votes: 0

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . . Votes: 0

Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea... Votes: 0

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones. Votes: 0

Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo. Votes: 0

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow. Votes: 0

The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me. Votes: 0

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had. Votes: 0

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun! Votes: 0

Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark. Votes: 0

Sky is grey, vegetation is plastic, and mankind is pale, for we have spent our days conceiving unnecessary tools for our arousal, and so we hide the nakedness of nature with brutal machinnes. Votes: 0

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. Votes: 0

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. Votes: 0

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything. Votes: 0

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution. Votes: 0

Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. Votes: 0

He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman. Votes: 0

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Votes: 0

Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters. Votes: 0

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink. Votes: 0

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't. Votes: 0

O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee. Votes: 0

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away. Votes: 0

Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish... Votes: 0

The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead. Votes: 0

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light. Votes: 0

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization. Votes: 0

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment. Votes: 0

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring. Votes: 0

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. Votes: 0

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action." Votes: 0

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. Votes: 0

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. Votes: 0

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale. Votes: 0

I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no. Votes: 0

It's definitely longer than the buzz cut you see most of the time in the federal government. I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight. Votes: 0

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares. Votes: 0

Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle. Votes: 0

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it. Votes: 0

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while… Votes: 0

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. Votes: 0

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. Votes: 0

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Votes: 0

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone. Votes: 0