Akin Quotes

199 quotes by 180 authors

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the… — Isaac Watts
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which… — Iannis Xenakis
The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that… — Jay Maisel
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of… — Anish Kapoor
Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little… — Robert J. Marks II
Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or… — Julius Evola
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state… — George Gaylord Simpson
Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you… — Cameron Russell
For some, excavating the past isnâ€™t an adventure, itâ€™s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. — Raquel Cepeda
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin… — Nigel Lythgoe
Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied… — Paul David Tripp
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the… — Eric Temple Bell
It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature… — Jan Morris
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but… — Tertullian
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of… — P.J. O'Rourke
A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is… — Laozi
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,… — Plato
.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage,… — Plato
Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

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