Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Raban

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

Napoleon Hill

Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

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.

Orson Welles

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Octavio Paz

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

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.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Jill Tarter

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

Evita Peron

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Erwin Schrodinger

Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.

Henry Louis Gates

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

Cassandra Clare

Well, what? Sophie-" "I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it was quite heavy. She went down just like a stone, miss. So I...I tied her to the bed and I came looking for you.

George Eliot

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

George Eliot

Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

Gottfried Leibniz

The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology.

James Branch Cabell

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Jacques Barzun

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.