Quotes About Reflection

Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

It is history that teaches us to hope.

If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.