Quotes by Mirrors My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child. Phoebe Fox mirrorschildrenpeople Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to. Picabo Street mirrorsself-esteeminspirational All too often the church holds up a mirror Philip Yancey reflecting-backchurchmirrors Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. Phyllis McGinley mirrorshairtrying What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. Paulo Coelho mirrorscharacterorder You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face. Pico Iyer parentmirrorsfather Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States. Pierre Trudeau elephantsmirrorssleep It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors. Pieter Zeeman lightmirrorsideas The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality. Piet Mondrian mirrorsrealityart An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past Pierre Corneille destinymirrorspast These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! Pierre Corneille gaymirrorslying He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order. Pio of Pietrelcina mirrorsknowingdirty Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin mirrorsmenscience Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is. Plutarch infalliblemirrorsmen Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein. Pope Gregory I mirrorseyeviews Speech is the mirror of the soul. Publilius Syrus speechmirrorssoul Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius Syrus thought-provokingmirrorsmen Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves. R. C. Sproul, Jr. scratchesmirrorsidols O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror. Rabindranath Tagore flatterymirrorsbeauty Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?” Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean,” she said. Rachel Caine mirrorseyemean«7172737475767778798081»
