Impression Quotes

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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it… — C.S. Lewis
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their… — James Martineau
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people… — Richard M. Nixon
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather… — Edward Albee
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. — Robert Breault
It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game… — Michael Jordan
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. — Walter Pater
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a… — Daniel Day-Lewis
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only… — John Taylor Gatto
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. — George Bernard Shaw
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing… — William Hazlitt
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it… — Camille Pissarro
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration. — Wassily Kandinsky
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and… — Max Born

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