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reflection degrees our-thoughts
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. William Whewell
reflection views people
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? William Shatner
reflection pope instinct
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. William James
reflection people trying
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives Tracy Kidder
reflection artist years
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante? Robert Schumann
reflection reality mirrors
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph. Vincent Van Gogh
reflection quiet born
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. Whittaker Chambers
reflection editors doubt
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. William Banting
reflection soul fans
Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements. Walter Kirn
wings ideas light
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day. Roger Martin
wings differences chickens
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. Woody Guthrie
wings might spirit
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades. Sara Sheridan
wings bird tree
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship. Samuel Rutherford
wings bird ships
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
wings poetry darkness
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Wallace Stevens
wings people giving
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites. Warren Beatty
wings giving heaven
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days. William Butler Yeats
wings trying apollo
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vladimir Nabokov
lights since
He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here. Chipper Jones
light
I didn't like him as light as he was. He should have been a little bulkier. That's when he's Shaq Diesel. Gary Payton
light
He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time. Frank Wood
light punishment fake
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations. Richard Posner
light enemy banking
The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. William Jennings Bryan
light soul waterfalls
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through. Virginia Woolf
light average giving
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage. Woody Allen
light hard
When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.
light imagination rivals
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. William Wordsworth