Mirrors Quotes - Page 13

• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Icons, Growing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Reflection in the mirror
  makes reality look at you

  Mario

  Reflection, Reality, Looks

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• Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

  Pope Benedict XVI's Message for The Celebration of The World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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• Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Anger, Looks

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.28, Penguin

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• I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.

  Allan McNish

  Thinking, Texting, Keyboards

  "Race Car Driver Allan McNish Talks About Being Scared, Texting and Taking the Bus". Interview with Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Sorrow, Shattered

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Furniture, Dangerous, Dynamite

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• When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Imperfection, Way, Gains

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.64

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• Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Authenticity

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.49, Bantam

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• Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Eye, Vices, Looks

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• Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

  Virginia Clinton Kelley

  Children, Might, Helping

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• Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Use, Difficult Times, Resolution

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• There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different face to each man who holds it in front of him. The same is true of a work of art. It has no proper existence as art until someone is reflected in it--and no two will ever be reflected in the same way. However much we all see in common in such a work, at the center we behold a fragment of our own soul, and the greater the art the greater the fragment.

  Harold Clarke Goddard

  Art, Men, Glasses

  Harold Clarke Goddard (1956). “The Meaning of Shakespeare”

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• The president stands between the twin mirrors of the past and future, causing his being to become reflected an infinite amount of times. At first, this can be very disorienting. But it induces the president to move quickly. He may, for example, mimic a wave with his arms in order to see how his actions extend across this mirroring of time, observing if the figure at the end acts at the same instant as the figure before him, and so on and so forth.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Moving, Past, Order

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• What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Taken, Class

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• A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Poetry, Stories

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.33

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• Speech is the mirror of the mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Speech

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• God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.

  Roberta Bondi

  Beautiful, God, Doe

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

  Rumi

  Real, Reflection, Love Is

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• To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

  Gregory Maguire

  Blood, Looks, Rubies

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• My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Dog, Sex, Laughing

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• With girls, I don't think right. I had a date with one girl, she had mirrors all over her bedroom. She told me to come over and bring a bottle. I got Windex.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Girl, Thinking, Bottles

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• I gazed into the mirror... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook

  Sefton Delmer

  Crooks, Faces, Staring

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• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any
  way.

  Edith Head

  Stars, White, Black

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• Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!

  Taylor Caldwell

  Dog, Men, Voice

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.17, Open Road Media

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