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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.
I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.
I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.
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.
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.
Everyone is made differently and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident.
Whatever your dream is, look yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it -no matter what the price.
This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.
...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start
Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?
Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel!
Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.
Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.
I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. Theyre in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!
It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.
I'm a serial renovator of apartments and old houses, so I'm in daily need of doorknobs, subway tiles, and 14-foot-tall pier mirrors.
When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight.
You must realize that what you are cannot be seen in a mirror. What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.