Quotes of Similarity - somelinesforyou

“ Using archaeological and anatomical science rather than artistic interpretation makes this the most accurate likeness ever created. ”

- Jean Claude

“ The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ”

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. ”

- Bette Midler

“ Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ 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

“ I know you are, but what am I? ”

- Paul Reubens

“ We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. ”

- Bible

“ I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity. ”

- Bob Anderson

“ Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ Variety is what constitutes organization; uniformity is mere mechanism. ”

- Benjamin Constant

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration. ”

- Junius

“ Jealousy is the fear of comparison. ”

- Max Frisch

“ 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

“ I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. ”

- Debbie Peterson

“ We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose...to be conformed to the likeness of his Son. (Romans 8:28-29). ”

- Bible

“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”

- William Burroughs

“ One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ Dermatologists often talk about people who seem 'addicted' to the sun people who know it's not good for them to be bronzed all the time, but don't seem able to stop tanning,... It's interesting that by slightly modifying tools used to identify substance-related disorders, we can see an objective similarity between regular tanning and those disorders. ”

- Richard Wagner

“ The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. ”

- Ben Sweetland

“ If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ”

- Thomas J. Watson
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