Quotes by Reflection When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. Jane Austen examinationeveningreflection Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot reflectiondarknight However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it! Jean-Baptiste Lamarck reflectionmenscience If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy. Jean Genet reflectionwantworld Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Jean-Luc Godard reflectionrealityart To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake. Jean-Paul Marat takenreflectionwise Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. Jean-Paul Sartre pairsreflectionideas Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves. Jean de la Bruyere scruplesreflectioncommon The man who meditates is a depraved animal. Jean-Jacques Rousseau reflectionanimalmen I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us. Jeet Aulakh indirectinspirationreflection Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. Jean-Paul Sartre glassesreflectionheaven A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out. Jean-Paul Sartre paleconsciousnessreflection Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves. Jeanette Winterson reflectionselfbook I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that. Jeanette Winterson crazyreflectionbook When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Jeff Bezos quiet-momentsreflectionmeaningful I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands. Jeanette Winterson deep-waterreflectionhands Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control. Jeffrey Gitomer grammarreflectionmade After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson reflectiondogfriendship People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss. Jena Malone reflectionlossdeath I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films. Jenni Olson cinemafilmreflection«3233343536373839404142»
