Best reflection & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”

Thinking Mind May Mean Doe Art Faces Order Energy Effort Acting Responsibility Risk Possibility Involved Findings Reflection Silent Execution Risk It Compliance Abstaining

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Ideas Earth Together Faces Form Individual Becoming Reflection Harmony Raises Scales Staring Covered Grain Expansion Domain Envelopes

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.”

Faces Church Serious Reflection Eras Posts Decline Christendom Irrelevance

Author:Alan Hirsch

“An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.”

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.”

“The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.”

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.”

Looks Two Real Faces Three Evil Wall Reflection Fancy Visible Melancholy Imaginary Pencils Real Ones

Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.”

Source: The Natural History of Religion

“Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.”

Men Heart Faces Women Reflection Connections Mirrors Wide Instant

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”

“Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.”

Real Faces Love Is Reflection Mirrors

Author:Rumi

“Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.”

Way Looks Eye Faces Walks Steps Reflection Wake Up Mirrors Best Way My Way Your Face You Choose

Author:Gary Busey

“The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched”

“It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.”

“I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.”

People Believe Important Faces I Believe Poor Issues Keys Reflection Treats Aids Who We Are Hiv Important Issues

Author:Alicia Keys

“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Men World Giving Faces Attitude Positive Reflection Glasses Every Man Looking Back Giving Back Jolly Eyeglasses Vanity Fair Great Inspirational

Book:Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

“Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape”

Faces Natural Known Cases Reflection Consequence Patient Museums Farmers Cows Drs Apes Natural History

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

“I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).”

Ifs Feels Seems Faces Lost Morning Growing Reflection Train Track Solve Train Tracks

Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.”

Men World Giving Looks Kind Persons Faces Young Turns Choices Laughing Reflection Glasses Every Man Companion Giving Back Jolly Vanity Fair

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.”

Looks Long Real Matter Enough Faces Evil Accepting Expression Reflection Worthy Arguing Satisfied Construction Cliche Grotesque Grinning Dispassionate Under Construction

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.”

Source: Inkdeath

“The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation. “I feel time like you dream. Your dreams are jumbled. You can’t remember the order of your dreams, and when you recall them, the memories bend. Faces change. It’s all in puddles and ripples. That’s what time is for me.”

Feels Dream Might Remember Faces Order Voice Memories Like You Moon Reflection Singers Your Dreams Recalls Ripple Reservations Puddles Tenors

Author:Dave Eggers

“You told me once, long ago, to look into a mirror and see your face. I refused to then. But now Mnimi has forced me to look at my own reflection. I’ve seen it through my eyes and I’ve seen it through yours. I wish to the gods that I could change what happened between us. If I could go back, I would never deny you. But I can’t. We both know that. Now I just want the chance to know you as I should have known you all those centuries ago. (Styxx)”

“Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.”

Knows World Firsts Dream Faces Imagine Reflection First Time Mirrors Stranger Forty Your Face Fright

Author:Milan Kundera

“He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.”

Faces Water Behinds Sun Reflection Gold Lit Halos

Book:Evercrossed

Source: Evercrossed

“I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Real Lasts Faces Doors Reflection Sight Mirrors Caught Decades No Idea Fades Last Time Bathroom Memorizing

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I paused, looking over my shoulder to make certain I was alone. I drew her eye makeup, smudged by tears. In her watery eyes I drew the reflection of the commander, standing in front of her, his fist clenched. I continued to sketch, exhaled, and shook out my hands.”

Hands Eye Faces Certain Fronts Tears Hair Reflection Standing Shoulders Breathing Makeup Thick Cheeks Smooth Her Eyes Curves Fists Commanders Bruises Blazing Chestnuts Eye Makeup

Book:Between Shades of Gray

Source: Between Shades of Gray

“I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander’s mouth and kissed the sphere’s glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.”

Long Eye Faces Three Found Black Love You Mouths Reflection Red Curiosity Lips Glasses Caught Tongue Noses Spheres Inches Face To Face Cement Rubies I Love You Too Salamanders Red Eye

Book:Magic Burns

Source: Magic Burns

“The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.”

Ifs Needs Body Earth Faces Spirit Dark My Own Objects Reflection Mirrors Glasses Agents Nerves Engines Ingenious Physical Body Memorandum

Book:Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

“The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.”

Wells Hands Faces Sides Sun Sea Reflection Skins Cancer Fishes Heavy Desert Ran Brown Scar Cheeks Benevolent Cords Erosion Skin Cancer

Book:The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.”

Men Trying Littles Together Faces Saws Century Jokes Reflection Understood Lonely Treated Mask Cracks Twentieth Century Parody Blake Little Man

Author:Alan Moore

“When you do what you want, not what you wish...' said the first raven. 'When you no longer seek your reflection in others' eyes...' said the second. 'When you see yourselves face to face...' said the third. 'Then,' the ravens intoned in unison, 'you will have found what you truly seek.”

Want Firsts Said Eye Faces Found Wish Reflection Thirds What You Want Face To Face Ravens Unison

Book:In a Glass Grimmly

Source: In a Glass Grimmly

“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”

People Knows Sometimes Faces Used Fear Water Silence Clear Reflection Shadow Depth Casts Obstacles Staring Streams Dread Obscure Transparent Clear Water

Book:Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

Source: Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

“There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.”

Matter Eye Faces Wish Study Reflection Vanity Your Face Embarrassed Glimpse Dissatisfied

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?”

Stills Beautiful Faces Night Tree Bed Moon Reflection Shining Beloved Branches Your Face Plums Wavering

Book:Che ore sono?: poesie

Source: Che ore sono?: poesie

“We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.”

Knows Feels Looks Faces Young Laughing Human Nature Baby Arms Reflection Percent Genes Kinship Chimpanzees Furry Pouting

Book:Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

Source: Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

“While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.”

Needs Remember Faces Virtue Talent Reflection Lovely Her Beauty

Book:Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

“If you can forgive yourself then you will no longer see the reflection of your own internal judgement in the faces of the people around you. And if you can do that then suddenly you’ll be in a whole different universe because the universe we all exist in is the one where we’re all so terrified of the judgement of our peers.”

People Ifs Different Whole Faces Universe Can Do Reflection Forgiving Judgement Internals Peers Terrified Forgive Yourself Different Universes

Author:Duncan Trussell

“Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.”

Looks Sometimes Faces Reflection Mirrors Paint Accurate Portraits Portrayal

Author:Megan Hart

“It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.”

Ifs Sometimes Hands Beautiful Faces Happened Tears Reflection Mirrors Heavenly Sweetness

Author:Oscar Milosz

“The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash plaguing Washington D.C. It uses a bit of satire and a bit of wishful thinking to form this powerful amalgam of imagery that nourishes and empowers the living art of the song. Our message is clear: Either these elected officials do their job and protect the rights and lives of ALL Americans or be prepared to face the consequences.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”

Source: The Medusa Frequency

“I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been.”

Believe Faces I Believe Modern Reflection I Believe In Maps Physiognomy

Author:John J. Geddes

“We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.”

“When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.”

Thinking Knows Writing Faces Song Audience Fans Draws Reflection Validity Constantly Thinking

Author:Chester Bennington

“You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.”

Humans Body Faces Nature Written Youth Bears Equal Reflection Surface Your Body Landscape Lifts Noses Owners Your Face Attractiveness Human Faces Engraved

Author:Francoise Giroud

“Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising emerges - some darkness or secret appears without us knowing why or giving it permission.”

Giving Said Sometimes Helping Use Faces Simple Secret Darkness Knowing Teacher Photography Reflection Mirrors Photographer Help Me Surprising Layers Permission Psychics

Author:Joyce Tenneson

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