Mirror Quotes - page 21

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image. (Paul Brunton)
Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror. View quote
Regina Brett
Annabeth, you know Morse code?” "Of course.” "So does Leo.” Piper handed her the mirror. "He'll be watching from the ship. Go to the ridge-” "And flash him!” Annabeth's face reddened. "That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea. View quote
Rick Riordan
There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60. View quote
Andrew Sean Greer
Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time. View quote
Richard Preston
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing. View quote
Richard Flanagan
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. View quote
Robert McKee
The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you're prepared to see in yourself-nothing more and nothing less. View quote
Robert Holden
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. View quote
Ruta Sepetys
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all? View quote
Sara Shepard
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. (Sogyal Rinpoche)
The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds. View quote
Stuart Wilde
Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality. View quote
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves. View quote
Ted Dekker
I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then. View quote
Tracy Morgan
I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that. View quote
Wayne Rooney
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees? View quote
Philip Yancey
The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have. View quote
Francesca Lia Block
I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see. View quote
Heather Morris
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. (Henning Mankell)
I train all the time and the weird thing is I'm in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids - either they haven't trained hard enough or they aren't serious enough. View quote
Hulk Hogan
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film. View quote
Channing Tatum
Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself. View quote
Charles Yu
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you're not looking, it's there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it's the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it's not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don't get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice. View quote
Charles Yu