Resemblance Quotes - Page 8

• For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

  Robert Sommer

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Robert Sommer (1978). “The Mind's Eye: Imagery in Everyday Life”

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• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love, Wall, Flower

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• More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

  Mark Twain

  God, Children, Father

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• Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

  Stephen King

  Stuff, Bears, Plans

  Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

  Realizing, Profession

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• Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

  P. D. James

  Personality, Doe, Affinity

  P.D. James (2012). “Death of an Expert Witness”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Uncles, Men, Perfect

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• We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.

  Francoise Gilot

  Men, Feet, Criticism

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• After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Real, Book

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Powerful, Moving

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• Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Real, Abuse, Identity

  1839 Letter to Henry Bulwer,1 Sep.

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• Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.505, Library of America

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• The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find
  their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Kings, Real

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.382, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Flower, Unique, Turkeys

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• Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Children, Hands, Should Have

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• We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

  Joni Mitchell

  War, Resemblance Is, People

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• It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also plays me. There's a kind of resemblance.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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• The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.

  Polybius

  Sea, Agitation, May

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• Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences... be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Hands, Differences

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 110, 1863.

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• I don't understand all these breasts right now, and they don't look like breasts. They look like someone's taken a grapefruit half and inserted it under your skin. I mean it's - it doesn't even bear any resemblance to what a natural breast looks like. But we're starting to think that this is what women should like. And young girls are looking at these breasts and thinking, oh, I need to go have my breasts done because they've lost touch with what a real breast actually looks like. I find it fascinating, I find it disturbing.

  Tom Ford

  Girl, Real, Taken

  "Tom Ford: From High Fashion To Film In 'Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 9, 2010.

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• "My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Blessed, Wings, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 88), 1895.

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• The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Reality, Agriculture

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.286, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reality, Compassion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 31, 2013

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