#reflect

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews. ↗

— Pola Negri

#box #box office #course #excellent #exceptions

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#beneath #bottom #crust #earth #election

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#country #demonstration #extremists #feels #klan

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. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#among #below #extensive #glow #gorgeous

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#call #double #first #i #objects

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#conceal #could #escape #exposes #hip-hop

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal. ↗

— Adam Rich

#hard-rock #love #make #metal #music

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#change the world #changes #really #reflect #washington

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self? ↗

— Edith Wharton

#solitude #age

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#common #common sense #entire #entire nation #human