Quotes About Mirror

Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]

I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some resemblance, some part of myself, like a thousand reflections of my own hands in a dark mirror.

glass, madam. He looks to see his own face, not

All is clouded by desire: as fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust ...Through these it blinds the soul.

Precisely—the bodies were a mirror image of some savage set of experiences that were central to the evolution of our man's mind.

In writing I was often aware that the same observation could fit neatly into different ideological moulds and that a train window is both mirror and window.

She is mirour of alle curteisye.

Purple cloud covered his head so that he silently attacked his own blood and likeness, a lunar countenance; stonily sank away into emptiness, when in a broken mirror a dying youth, the sister, appeared; the night engulfed the cursed race.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers. She was desperate to forget that she was little

Jim. What a lovely surprise." I smiled, aiming for cordial. Mark winced and took off. I caught a glimpse of my smile in the wall mirror. Very little cordiality but lots of homicidal maniac. I dropped the smile before I caused an interagency incident.

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Why on earth would you want to talk to me? (Channon) My lady, do you not own a mirror? (Sebastian) Yes, but it's not an enchanted one. (Channon)

Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.

The historian Howard Zinn's remarks about the South make sense: it is "not the antithesis but the essence of American society which could therefore function as a mirror in which the nation can see its own blemishes magnified."6 If the South is a mirror, Mississippi is a microscope.

He went on to say that if the Wicked Queen were around today, the whole story might have been different, because she would have looked in her Magic Mirror and said, "If I got a little laser work around the jaw and eyelids, I might still be considered the Fairest in the Land.

Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.

To be a mirror of God's love is to show Jesus by one's way of living

Free man, you will always cherish the sea! The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul In the infinite unrolling of its billows; Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.

Un hombre espantoso entra y se mira al espejo. «¿Por qué se mira al espejo si no ha de verse en él más que con desagrado?». El hombre espantoso me contesta: «Señor mío, según los principios inmortales del ochenta y nueve, todos los hombres son iguales en derechos; así, pues, tengo derecho a mirarme; con agrado o con desagrado, ello no compete más que a mi conciencia».

Así el enamorado de la vida universal entra en la multitud como en una inmensa reserva de electricidad. También se lo puede comparar con un espejo tan grande como esa multitud; con un caleidoscopio dotado de conciencia que, con cada movimiento, representa la vida múltiple y la gracia cambiante de los elementos de la vida. Es un yo insaciable de no-yo que, a cada instante, lo capta y lo expresa en imágenes más vivas que la vida misma, siempre inestable y fugaz.

But if there were some sort of quantum sail, a one-way mirror that reflected virtual particles on one side but let them pass unhindered through the other, the vacuum energy would push the whole object toward the unreflective half of the sail. Millis admits that nobody has any clue how to do this.

Part of high cholesterol is that you can look at yourself in the mirror, and you can feel great and think there's no issues. But silently, they can be affecting your heart.