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Quotes About Reflections

The reflections of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. Proverbs 16:1
~ Beth Moore
The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work.
~ John P. Kotter
Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -
~ Sonya Hartnett
Freddy Mercury's reflections about supersonic women are making me glad that I've never met one: they sound like a bit of a handful - not very easy-going.
~ Sophie Hannah
Thoughts are the images, memories, beliefs, judgments, and reflections that float through your mind and often give rise to your feelings.
~ Stephan Bodian
when we peer into the distance some of the galaxies we see may simply be reflections, ghost images created by rebounded light.
~ Bill Bryson
Over your body the clouds go High, high and icily And a little flat, as if they Floated on a glass that was invisible. Unlike swans, Having no reflections; Unlike you, With no strings attached. All cool, all blue. Unlike you You, there on your back, Eyes to the sky.
~ Sylvia Plath
Interviews are difficult.
~ Hope Sandoval
The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.
~ Brian Greene
Many find it fatuous and downright repugnant to claim that the wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.
~ Brian Greene
War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger state of human affairs in which the total organism called "humanity" finds its existence. —PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus
~ Brian Herbert
People are symptoms of dreams
~ Karen Russell
In my dreams I come face to face with myriad reflections of myself, all unknown and passing strange. They speak unending in languages not my own and walk with companions I have never met, in places my steps have never gone. In my dreams I walk worlds where forests crowd my knees and half the sky is walled ice. Dun herds flow like mud, vast floods tusked and horned surging over the plain, and lo, they are my memories, the migrations of my soul.
~ Steven Erikson
The sounds he had perceived were no more than rogue emotions and memories, echoing from wall to wall.
~ Storm Constantine
They are pursued by a pair of hawk-faced men dressed in black and white: both forbidding, both hungry, but one tall and slender, the other short and fat. Two reflections of the same soul in the cosmic house of mirrors, or uncanny coincidence? It is impossible to say.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.
~ George Eliot
Americans] correctly believe that its political arrangements are universal truths, and the understanding of the human condition that those arrangements reflect are superior to other nations' arrangements.
~ George F. Will
In the evening streamed down the radiant sun, That great eye which stares from the inquisitive sky. From behind the window that scattered its bright rays It seemed to gaze upon our long, quiet dinners, Spreading wide its candle-like reflections On the frugal table-cloth and the serge curtains.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Within the reflections in a glass of water, there is an analogous tumultuous life made up of the activities of a myriad of molecules. Many more than there are living beings on Earth.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Greater contentment is to be found in letting go of our hopes and fears than in any clinging. These reflections on the natural laws that affect us can inspire us to turn toward spiritual practice as a refuge.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
~ la bruyere jean de iv
As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.
~ Laini Taylor
And as for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths—intrusions of reality into fantasy, like… toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.
~ Laini Taylor
"The Purple Cow" Reflections on a Mythic Beast, Who's quite Remarkable, at Least I never Saw a Purple Cow— I never Hope to See One; But I can tell you Anyhow I'd rather See than Be One.
~ Gelett Burgess, May 1895