111 quotes found
“Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!”
“The reflection is as real as the reflected till you touch it!”
“Better to be dirty than dead.”
“A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.”
“He said that the musicits order and precisionhelped him find the patterns in thingsthe way through the confusion of events and opinions to direction, to order, and beyond, to inspiration.”
“You are not the one you see in themirror. You are the one who isshining in the eyes of others”
“In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires.”
“Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, b...”
“And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still lower depth came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated wa...”
“Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?”
“Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for me to recapture that feelinglife wasnt so easy anymore. Small things pricked my...”
“He felt the withering of something, the way risk was increasingly eliminated, replaced with a bland new world where the viewing of food preparation would be felt to be more than the reading of poet...”
“Where there is reflection, there is either double beauty or double ugliness!”
“Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down”
“The kingdom of reflection is at the mercy of the wind!”
“There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.”
“Reflect within yourself for that reflection is far better than when what you see in the mirror.”
“Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!”
“To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.”
“Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself”
