Quotes about Reflection

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.

they were non-thinkers, attaching themselves to any fancied power for the identity which this gave them. Without a reflection from her they were empty. Thus, they were dangerous.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Hey, God! I hope you're there. I want you to hear my prayer. That graven image on my shelf; Is it really you or just myself? Well, anyway, here it goes: Please keep me on my toes. Help me past my worst mistakes, Doing it for both our sakes, For an example of perfection To the Proctors of my section; Or merely for the Heaven of it, Like bread, for the leaven of it. For whatever reason may incline, Please act for yours and mine.

And he wondered: What is the now?

I'll give you my father's answer to those who act without thinking: 'A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

The noise obviously wasn't penetrating to his quarters.

IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!

We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.

We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?