Reflecting Quotes

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying -- only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times.

Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is.

To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while.

Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor.

Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different.

Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope.

When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being;

you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The Army will take its lessons learned.

They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Te Aroha was something we settled on quite early.

It was our way of reflecting the amount of love this baby's been shown before she even arrived.

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes;

we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

Fans be reflecting the way I be making music.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you.

Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.