Impression Quotes

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The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. — Dwight L. Moody
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This… — Adi Shankara
My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was — William Shakespeare
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar -… — Gustave Flaubert
That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to… — Carl von Clausewitz
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized. — William James
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,… — William James
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is… — Lord Byron
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of… — Gertrude Jekyll
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. — Ezra Pound
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination… — Charles Horton Cooley
Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks. — Roberto Luongo
Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to… — Olga Korbut
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who… — Charles Dickens
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike
For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr… — Alistair Cooke
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. — William Hazlitt
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt

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