Reflected Quotes
450 quotes by 381 authors
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same…
— Abigail Adams
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
— Honore de Balzac
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
— Theodor Adorno
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I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to…
— Margaret Cho
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected.…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
— Salman Rushdie
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Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy…
— Rajneesh
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Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching is that as…
— Rajneesh
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A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just…
— Rajneesh
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Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.
— Andrew Comiskey
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We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much…
— Norm MacDonald
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The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,…
— Walter Scott
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Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.
— Samuel Rogers
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It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of…
— Francis Parkman
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For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides…
— David Quammen
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