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I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. -- Miriam Makeba
Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time. -- Karen Azinger
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me. -- Pamela Anderson
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We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves. -- Ken Goldberg
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. -- John Ruskin
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. -- Peace Pilgrim
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. -- William Congreve
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. -- Yoshihiko Noda
The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling. -- Craig Brown
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. -- Marshall McLuhan
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. -- John Woolman
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. -- John Updike
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of. -- Rod Steiger
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality. -- Kenneth Burke
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. -- James Madison
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! -- Frances Burney
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it. -- Alan King
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large. -- Kenzaburo Oe
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be. -- Jon Katz
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others. -- Marya Hornbacher
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house. -- Grace Jones
We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God. -- David Icke
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity. -- Jon Landau
In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine. -- Sarah McLachlan
I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric. -- Ana Tijoux
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation. -- Brian Greene
Politicians are simply reflections of the public. -- Wes Jackson
He studied cities as women study their reflections. -- O. Henry
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. -- Magnus Hirschfeld
We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child. -- Ben Harper
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. -- Jane Austen
Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections. -- Frederick Lenz
Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections. -- Neil Gaiman
Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest. -- Tim Lebbon
Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections -- Ryuho Okawa
My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history. -- Shimon Attie
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? -- James Madison
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. -- Francois Fenelon
Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me. -- J. E. H. MacDonald
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections. -- A. B. Simpson
In the CLOUD, reflections mirror reflections, cutting out the object and leaving only infinite emptiness. -- Joseph MacKinnon
You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast. -- Stephen King
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. -- Alexander Pope
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. -- Neal Shusterman
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. -- Thomas a Kempis
In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants -- Steven Magee
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang! -- James Rosenquist
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. -- Virginia Woolf
Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible. -- Philip Kapleau
Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity. -- Debra Evans
These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite. -- Louis Pasteur
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
My writings are reflections of my momentary thoughts, imaginations, and love for you and life in this world as a whole. -- Debasish Mridha
We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. -- Victor Hugo
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. -- Joseph Joubert
There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections. -- Edward Said
What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain. -- Alexander Blok
Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you. -- Wes Fesler
One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon -- Saira Viola
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. -- John Quincy Adams
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves. -- Jean de la Bruyere
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see. -- Theodore Sturgeon
I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles. -- Albert Einstein
He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water. -- Elizabeth Chandler
Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life. -- Aberjhani
You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught. -- Charles Manson
Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self? -- Christiane Northrup
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals... -- Katherine Dunn
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies -- Bryant McGill
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies. -- Bryant H. McGill
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections? -- Michel de Montaigne
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. -- Jose Marti
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed. -- Ernst Haas
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm. -- Walter Bagehot
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. -- Anais Nin
The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water. -- Claude Monet
The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind. -- Byron Katie
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise. -- Nicolas Chamfort
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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. -- Jane Austen
These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel. -- Claude Monet
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections -- Douglas Sirk
Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams. -- Charles McPhee
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine. -- Roger Caillois
With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel -- Sara Groves
Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections. -- Mira Grant
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves. -- Joseph Campbell
Every sunset is different, because every day sun is different, clouds are different, space is different, reflections are different, mountains are different, fogs are different, and above all, we are different! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought. -- John of Damascus
The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that. -- Vinton Cerf
Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it - -- Sonya Hartnett
If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections. -- Brigham Young
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees. -- Czeslaw Milosz
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces.One family, many races.One truth, many paths.One heart, many complexions.One light, many reflections.One world, many imperfections.ONE.We are all one,But many. -- Suzy Kassem
The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them. -- Lord Chesterfield
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns. -- Epictetus
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. -- Aldous Huxley
Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself. -- Edgar Degas
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are. -- Huston Smith
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again. -- Francois Fenelon
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience. -- Jonathan Culler
I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences. -- Hollace M. Metzger

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