Reflected Quotes

450 quotes by 370 authors

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
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
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno
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
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
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
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
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
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Long on the wave reflected lustres of play. — Samuel Rogers
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
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
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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