Resemblance Quotes

• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Military

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• All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Music, Feelings, Mysterious

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Appreciation, Rewards And Recognition

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 13

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• We understand through resemblance.

  Mason Cooley

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• It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Resemblance Is, Whales

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• Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

  Madame de Stael

  Lying, Resemblance Is, Differences

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Time, Mistake, Character

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• There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Desire

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Differences, People, Perception

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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• Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

  Bill Gates

  School, Winning, Done

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• Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Powerful, Wish, World

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• Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Family, Frustrating, Code

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• The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

  David O. McKay

  Powerful, Ideas, World

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• The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creativity, May, Bears

  Noam Chomsky (2012). “Selected Readings on Transformational Theory”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.

  Steve Garrigan

  Powerful, Positive Thinking, World

  "Five minutes with... Kodaline". Interview with Steve Cummins, irishpost.co.uk. April 1, 2013.

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• Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

  Mark Twain

  God, Differences, Editors

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

  John French Sloan

  Mean, Artist, Technique

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• There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cells, Hands, Two

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

  Antony Sher

  Resemblance Is, Play, Careers

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• I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

  Ben Affleck

  Swag, Insecurity, Bears

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  Louis Aragon

  Marine, Men, Swings

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• A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Reorganization, Might

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• Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, Real

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• The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

  Minna Antrim

  Beautiful, Pride, Actresses

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