Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

Naomi Judd

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

Miriam Makeba

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Nelson Mandela

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Omar Suleiman

What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

Marcel Marceau

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Margaret Cho

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

Leon Jouhaux

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Learned Hand

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Lauren Oliver

The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not.

Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

Irvine Welsh

How did it make you feel?

J. K. Rowling

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

J. K. Rowling

Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.

Ken Wilber

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 on the mirror. And you are the mirror, the mirror mind, and not any experienced reflection.

Kelly Slater

I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are.

Ken Kesey

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Keith Urban

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

Keanu Reeves

It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's important? Dealing with the moment of a different kind of feeling for mortality. Shifting of the body. Contextualizing or reevaluating behaviors and values. All those kinds of things.

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.

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.

John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

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.

Terence Fisher

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

Nicolas Cage

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

Miranda July

I suppose the daily disciplines are just a reflection of the qualities of my inner world - a mixture of paralysis and terror and a lighter, freer, kind of rebellious woman. So those are just constantly pushing against each other, and that's played out in every area of my life.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.