Mirrors Quotes
1733 Mirrors quotes by 1199 unique authors
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What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be…
— Justina Chen
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Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
— Doris Lessing
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Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
— Italo Calvino
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Places do not lose their identity, however far one travels. It is the heart that begins to erode over time. The face in the hotel…
— Joanne Harris
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Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,…
— Virginia Woolf
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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what…
— Christine Feehan
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At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
— Italo Calvino
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He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights that ringed the…
— James Dashner
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Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?
— Wilhelm Grimm
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Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
— Donald Miller
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Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you…
— Marissa Meyer
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It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if…
— Holly Black
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It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on…
— Betty White
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they…
— Marilyn Monroe
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I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion,…
— Charles Yu
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I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind…
— Terry Pratchett
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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.
— Yoko Ono
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THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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