Reflecting Quotes - Page 13

• One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

  Agatha Christie

  Reflection, Things In Life, Remember

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• You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

  Saint Augustine

  Wings, People, Research

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.199

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• It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

  Daniel Defoe

  Order, People, Being Thankful

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, p.177, First Avenue Editions

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• Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Real, Character, Tears

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.284, Wordsworth Editions

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• Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.

  Koushun Takami

  Running, Uncles, Men

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• It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.

  Michael Buble

  Dream, Wish, Records

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. January 13, 2016.

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• I think that it's very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some sense, your partner is a mirror, and you have to like what they're reflecting back at you.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Mirrors, Reflecting Back

  "Lena Dunham Opens Up About Her New Book, Not That Kind of Girl, and What She's Learned From Her Sister". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2014.

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• I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Careers, Looks

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

  Robert Coover

  Writing, Self, Fiction

  Interview with Aaron Shulman, believermag.com. July 1, 2015.

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• Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Reflecting Back, Radiance

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.84, Multnomah

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• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

  John Locke

  Practice, Conquer, Habit

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• My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.

  John Green

  Writing, Reality, Trying

  "How John Green Wrote a Cancer Book but Not a 'Bullshit Cancer Book'". Interview with Rebecca J. Rosen, www.theatlantic.com. February 25, 2013.

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• If you are curious as to what your future may hold, you can look into a mirror. What is reflecting back? Does a sparkle in your eyes indicate excitement about new adventures and opportunities? Does a smile on your lips portray an inner happiness and abundant goodwill towards others?

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Adventure, Eye

  John Marks Templeton (2008). “Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth”, p.266, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.

  Ernie Lyons

  Spring, Rivers, Clouds

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• The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Military, Real, Men

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• Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel.

  Blake Lively

  Dressing Up, Feels, Dressings

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• As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

  Felicity Kendal

  Drama, Play, Tvs

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• I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.

  William Kristol

  Philosophy, Fighting, President

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• Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Motivational, Past

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• Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by watching them you will become unidentified with them, you will become a mirror reflecting them. And this brings great freedom. Freedom from dreams is freedom from the world.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Freedom, Mirrors

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• The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward.

  Robin Cook

  Party, Weekend, Leader

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• One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Shine On, Glasses

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• You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.

  George Clooney

  Country, Thinking, People

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• The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

  Peter Kreeft

  Attitude, Mind, Modern

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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• This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Thinking, World

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