Reflections Quotes

160 quotes by 150 authors

STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost… — Alain de Botton
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves. — Jean de la Bruyere
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to… — Brian Greene
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all… — Grace Jones
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch… — Alan King
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his… — Jon Landau
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were… — James Madison
I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. — Miriam Makeba
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made… — Marshall McLuhan
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. — John Ruskin
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of… — John Updike
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant… — Jack Kerouac
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by… — Edward Gibbon
He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he… — Michael Ondaatje
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art… — Edvard Munch
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped â€” it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange… — Eugene H. Peterson
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter

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