Reflections Quotes

160 quotes by 150 authors

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. — Virginia Woolf
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's… — Woodrow Wilson
Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and… — Sylvia Browne
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or… — Walter Bagehot
You are not the one who experiences liberation; you are the clearing, the opening, the emptiness, in which any experience comes and goes, like reflections… — Ken Wilber
With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful… — Sara Groves
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant… — Charles Darwin
No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome… — Rudyard Kipling
At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes… — Frank Lloyd Wright
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence… — George Hackenschmidt
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And… — Winston Churchill
You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught. — Charles Manson
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about… — Jonathan Culler
The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts,… — Iain Sinclair
And, because my role in society Ââ€”or any artist or poet's roleâ€” is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people… — John Lennon
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections… — Marya Hornbacher
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner… — Marquis de Sade
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity;… — Eliphas Levi

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