The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it.… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“...I looked for a scrape in my reflection and then, meeting my own eyes, stood for a sec and tried to figure,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror, Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer. The truth is that you… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
How to Tell If Shoes Fit: Walking around the shoe store is not going to tell you any more than test-driving a… — Mimi Pond Copy Share Image
Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you are curious as to what your future may hold, you can look into a mirror. What is reflecting back? Does… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Every day look in the mirror and flex your muscles. Smile and enjoy the sight of a beautiful fit body. If you… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror;… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I… — Eminem Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I can't look in the mirror and see people dying on the street that should have the same opportunities that I've had.… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person.… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The Pleiadians see a huge upswing in the drama on the planet and in individual lives. The drama is not a bad… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
This covenant energy holds and mirrors the pact that we have made of self-fulfillment for ourselves in this lifetime, and that covenant… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
