Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Mary Astell

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Michael Connelly

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Mark Ruffalo

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

Man Ray

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

John Adams

Everything in life should be done with reflection.

James Madison

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

James Madison

The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

James Madison

It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.

Emma Thompson

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

John Heider

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

Rafael Correa

After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

Shane Koyczan

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

Sergei Eisenstein

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Sidney Poitier

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

Neil Gaiman

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

John Steinbeck

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Michelle Shocked

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

Margaret Mead

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

Margaret Heffernan

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way..

Margaret J. Wheatley

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Michael Bell

The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

James Franco

Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.

Jacques Maritain

The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.

Jacque Fresco

As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation. He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test. He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience. What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

Pat Metheny

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

Plato

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

Paulo Freire

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

Paulo Freire

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Lauryn Hill

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.