Quotes by Reflection I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows. Georgette Heyer wifereflectiondesire When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. Gerard De Nerval religiousreflectiondream If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirt, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!" He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights. Georgette Heyer cousinreflectionnight Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning. George MacDonald strongreflectionreality You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media] Germany Kent mediasocialreflection Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective context - which presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. It is an interpretation, literally a reflection. Gerhard Richter reflectionmeanart Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. Giambattista Vico racereflectionclass It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known. George Washington voicerealreflection Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult. Gilles Deleuze alliancesreflectionphilosophy If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board. Gisela Stuart drawingreflectioneurope The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in. George Washington armyreflectionsleep A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. George Santayana speechreflectiondream Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports. Giorgio Armani fashionreflectionsports This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains. Glen Duncan unclesreflectionlove Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom. George Eliot reflectionwiselying A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness. Gloria Estefan peace-and-happinessinternal-peacereflection The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality. Gouverneur Morris reflectionwritingmen Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? George Eliot reflectionprayerroots When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house. Grace Jones mirrorsreflectionreality Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection. Frederick Lenz reflectionselfpeople«2324252627282930313233»
