Resemblance Quotes
Resemblance Quote of the day
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
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.
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.
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.
Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.
All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.
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.
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.
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
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.
Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
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.
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.
Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.
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.
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
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.
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.
Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.
The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.
Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
"He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle."
