Cast Quotes

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. (Ovid)
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. View quote
James Baldwin
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. View quote
Georg Büchner
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. View quote
George MacDonald
MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures. View quote
Laraine Day
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. View quote
Nelson Mandela
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. View quote
José Martí
The die is cast. View quote
Julius Caesar
Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ. (Anne Hutchinson)
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last. View quote
Alexander Pope
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. View quote
Edmund Burke
I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me And cast my love behind. View quote
Ben Jonson
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness? View quote
Vitruvius
The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations. (Pliny the Elder)
People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice. View quote
Tim Burton
In Fascism, as in Communism, the idea of the future was based on a critique of bourgeois modernity... It rose from a variety of currents and from authors of very different origins, all of whom demonized the bourgeoisie. The doctrine was cast as post-Marxist, not as pre-liberal. View quote
Francois Furet
I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl. View quote
Christina Ricci
It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise. View quote
David Talbot