Mirror Quotes - page 3

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster. View quote
Suetonius
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am. View quote
John Lydon
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror ... Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart. View quote
Sviatoslav Richter
The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day," said Mr. Irwine. "No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things. View quote
George Eliot
Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. View quote
Derek Walcott
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie, Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more. View quote
Robert Southwell
Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face. (Ravi Zacharias)
I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you? View quote
David Hockney
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. View quote
Terence
The mirror cracked from side to side 'The curse is come upon me', cried The Lady of Shalott. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. View quote
Julio Cortázar
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. View quote
Ramakrishna
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty. View quote
William S. Burroughs
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide. (Ambrose Bierce)
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. - The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny. View quote
Emil Cioran
All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade. View quote
Noel Gallagher
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. View quote
Steve Jobs