Quotes of Likeness - somelinesforyou

“ One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ”

- Marlo Thomas

“ We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ”

- Grenville Kleiser

“ Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. ”

- Mary Bateson

“ I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame. ”

- Anthony Quinn

“ Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Jealousy is the fear of comparison. ”

- Max Frisch

“ The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer. ”

- Thomas J. Watson

“ Liberty, equality, fraternity. ”

- Motto

“ I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a mature record means. ”

- Ian Williams

“ The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters. ”

- George Jackson

“ The analogy I like is this: imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Comparisons are odorous. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is no self-portrait of me. ”

- Gustav Klimt

“ This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. ”

- Adam Clarke

“ I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. ”

- Agnes Macphail

“ You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it. ”

- Jonathan Klein

“ Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image. ”

- Martina Hingis

“ Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. ”

- Dorothy Day

“ I think it's a great album, but it came out at the wrong time. We got a bad deal and it was a very weird time. Without getting to into it, it was not the right time to do what we did. When we went into it, I wasn't sure about it and I told the guys that, but once I understood it more, I got into it just as much as everyone else. ”

- Eric Carr

“ Wit is brief and sudden, and sharply defined as a crystal; it does not make pictures, it is not fantastic; but it detects an unsuspected analogy or suggests a startling or confounding inference. Every one who has had the opportunity of making the comparison will remember the effect produced on him by some witticisms is closely akin to the effect produced on him by subtle reasoning which lays open a fallacy or absurdity, and there are persons whose delight in such reasoning always manifests itself in laughter. ”

- George Eliot

“ I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. ”

- Plato

“ People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment and surprise. ”

- Christine Downing

“ All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. ”

- Peter Singer

“ It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it. ”

- Yogi Berra
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