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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of...

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Quote by Franz Kafka about opinion, things, world

Billing Statements do not provide 'Actual Posting Dates' They reflect 'Accurate Posting Dates'. This was contained within a reply from a Retail Credit Account Analyst of a major Banking Establishment.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I...

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Quote by Kelly Osbourne about age, olderness, music

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Quote by Robert Owen about religion, error, faith

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his...

Quote by Thomas Paine about love, conduct, smile, conscience, problems, affair, heart, death, man

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from...

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Quote by Thomas Paine about smile, problems, real estate, man

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Quote by Thomas Paine about thinking, mind

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset an American sunset, and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

Quote by Francis Parkman about wealth, water, sky, americans

Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection...

Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost, and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived.

Quote by John Pearson about love, affection, contentment

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true demand for our services increases in hard times.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about affair, world

...if these dreams are shadows of God reflected into knowledge, why God’s shadows are dreams? Only because you can wake up from a dream and all these shadows always wake up in an infinite echo which depicts God? If even God’s shadows can wake up,...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about dream, god, infinite, knowledge, contentment

Thus we live, with every passing moment, our own Death! If our Life were a reflection in exactly what we are, this would mean that we mirror and we refer to ourselves, even though we refer to what we are not, coming to live in a parallel world...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about god, shadow, impossible, death, things, moment, world, life

We know there is death only because it is the opposite of Life, and we can recognize only one opposite because we think on the basis of a bivalent logic of good and bad, beautiful and ugly, etc. How would Life or Death look like if they had three...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, death, shadow, logic, knowledge, bad luck, life, bad, god, nothing

Nevertheless we refer to death as we live our entire lives through it. What else could life be than our own reflection in what we are not, so in death? What else does life refer to if not Death?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, life

Consequently, the sentimental furniture that becomes a religious one belongs without a doubt to the environment, to the outside and in no way to the inside, to the self in which this exterior reflects like in a mirror of our own Destiny.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, doubt, self-control

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man...

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Quote by William M. Thackeray about world, man, face

Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your...

Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Quote by Sophia Loren about beauty, eyes, contentment

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is...

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about woman, kiss, faith, family, children, future, mother, affection, treasure, symbol

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Quote by John Updike about truth, privacy, woman, man

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