Quotes of Resemble - somelinesforyou

“ A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ What we love, we shall grow to resemble. ”

- Bernard of Clairvaux

“ Frau Schaub came as an ambassador bringing flowers and telegrams. The result is that my whole office resembles a flower shop and smells like a cemetery chapel. ”

- Eva Braun

“ Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ”

- Hesiod

“ Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ”

- Aristotle

“ The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. ”

- Robert Burns

“ The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. ”

- Socrates

“ The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. ”

- Martin Van Creveld

“ Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety. ”

- John J. O’Connor

“ Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases. ”

- David Lindsay

“ People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. ”

- Rick Kaplan

“ Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ”

- Julian Huxley

“ The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. ”

- Bernard Holland

“ The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. ”

- Jane Porter

“ Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self. ”

- Susan Griffin

“ For their drink, they draw a liquor from barley or other grain; and ferment the same, so as to make it resemble wine. ”

- Germanicus

“ Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig. ”

- Claud Cockburn

“ A mass of Victorian wiles and granite that resembles a battleship in the rain and a wedding cake in the sun. ”

- Francis X. Clines

“ All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Jean Cocteau

“ A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. ”

- Benjamin Franklin
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