Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?
The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of. . . But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.
I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.
Reflect upon your present blessings
Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.
The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.
When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires. . Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.
I don't want to make a show about AA because it's a personal experience for anybody who is a part of that. My relationship with it has changed over the years, and I wanted the show to reflect that in a real way.
What I do is put mirrors in the right place to reflect an image.
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life. . . three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.