Quotes About Reflection

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.