Impression Quotes

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

Saying, Sometimes, Silent

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. Nixon

Anger, Angry, Respects

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau

Lost, Show, Though

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost

Life, School, Book

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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen

Deep, Words, Leave

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
Sigourney Weaver

Life, Trust, Hurt

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing, Same, Though

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn

Love, Hard, Try

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Read, Yours, Laboring

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.
Billy Graham

Negative, Fair, Quite

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing, General, Happiest

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace

Through, Learn, Makes

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Judge, Someone, Real

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Jim Carrey

Today, Working, House

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Makes, Face, Full

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
Mia Hamm

Team, Again, Minds

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
Joan Jett

Mean, May, Tough

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
Jon Stewart

Country, Two, Days

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Woman, May, Seen

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
Charles R. Swindoll

Life, God, Problems

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
Helena Bonham Carter

School, Strong, Find

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper

Nature, Possible, Painting

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
Ernst Haas

Beautiful, Picture, Expression

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Ricardo Montalban

Love, Politics, Good

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
Billy Sunday

Today, Same, Cannot

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.
Jerry Seinfeld

Bother, Stern, Howard

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
Brigitte Bardot

Love, Films, Happier

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp

Happiness, Time, Happy

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.
Sting

Work, Down, Wrong

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Live, Place, Might

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