Reflection Quotes

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On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world.… — Bell Hooks
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. — E L Doctorow
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection. — Hugh Nibley
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet — Robert Browning
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a… — Robert M. Pirsig
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all… — Marjane Satrapi
Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose. — Soren Kierkegaard
That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse… — John Green
My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically. — Richelle Mead
She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually… — Jane Austen
If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed? — Steven Wright
I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning,… — Anna Akhmatova
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has… — Susanna Clarke
Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you.… — Milan Kundera
I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like… — Janet Evanovich

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