Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emanuel Swedenborg

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

Elisabeth Shue

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

Joel Osteen

Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.

John Dos Passos

A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

John O'Donohue

In our rapid and externalized world, language has become ghostlike, abbreviated to code and label. Words that would mirror the soul carry the loam of substance and the shadow of the divine. The sense of silence and darkness behind the words in more ancient cultures, particularly in folk culture, is absent in the modern use of language. Language is full of acronyms; nowadays we are impatient of words that carry with them histories and associations.

John Candy

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

John Berger

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

Joe Hill

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

Garry Trudeau

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

James Patterson

Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.

James Patterson

I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn’t a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. “Well, that’ll simplify things,” Fang said.

Joan Didion

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Jimi Hendrix

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

Jimi Hendrix

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

Jim Morrison

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

Eric Thomas

Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror

Emma McLaughlin

You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

Emma Goldman

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

Ludacris

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

Loretta Young

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

Malcolm Forbes

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

Malcolm Forbes

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Mahatma Gandhi

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

Fred Upton

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

Hayley Mills

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

Helen Oyeyemi

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

Heather Morris

I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.

Julie Benz

When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.

Julie Burchill

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Kate Middleton

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Justin Hayward

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

Judith Viorst

There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.

Josh Radnor

And so, however many people watch this thing, that's how many different opinions there will be about it. But I don't feel like it has an agenda in terms of its ideology. It just presents a story like a mirror. It's a mirror more than it is than a distorted mirror.