George Bancroft Quotes

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Bancroft

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Stop

• Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Bad
  • Healing
  • Bad Times

• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Creative

• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Dog
  • Mirror
  • Humble

• When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Different
  • Women
  • She

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Know
  • Mirror

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • House
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Myself
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Look
  • Mirror
  • Angel

• I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Find
  • Look
  • Mirror

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Past

• The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Moving
  • Mirror
  • Moving Forward

• If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • People
  • Time
  • Health

• I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Why
  • Hair
  • Mirror

• Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long.

  

  Chelan Simmons
  • World
  • Long
  • Girl

• Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Song

• I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

  

  Marianne Wiggins

• I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Matter
  • Place
  • Born

• So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • Country
  • Job

• Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

  

  George Bancroft
  • Mirror