Top 820 Reflected Quotes & Sayings

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . .

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

The world is a mirror in which everyone sees himself reflected

A social consciousness should be reflected in your poetry.

I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

What we know is not always reflected in what we do.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

I'm always on the move, but I don't want my hectic schedule to be reflected in how I look.

At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.

I don't think my election as Taoiseach actually made history - it just reflected it, reflected the enormous changes that had already occurred in our country.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

I've always reflected on the game.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology, rapid social change that were reflected in Brexit, that's been reflected in some of the debates in Germany and France and other places, that those exist in the United States as well. My view is that over the long term, over the next 10, 15, 20 years, if we are able to address the legitimate economic concerns of those who feel left behind by globalization, then many of these tensions will be reduced. And we will see a world that is less divided.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

It's important, as a young person of color, to see yourself reflected in the media.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?

As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this Eve to the grinning Unknown. A million doors had once been barred against the evil visitants, a million prayers mumbled, a million candles lit. There was something majestic about the idea, Henderson reflected.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

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.

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

The love reflected from another person has its source in your own heart.

I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's reflected in educational gaps. It's reflected in racial disparities.

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.

I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.