Akin Quotes
199 quotes by 180 authors
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Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.
— Frances Harper
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route…
— Arthur Miller
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Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening…
— Edward Hoagland
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I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with…
— Harlan Ellison
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Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are…
— Otto von Bismarck
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
— Jacqueline Carey
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One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and…
— George MacDonald
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The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by…
— Theo Dorgan
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Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for…
— Robert D. Arnott
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In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it…
— Gad Saad
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Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
— Jay Samit
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours…
— Lord Dunsany
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter,…
— William Shenstone
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There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to…
— Seneca the Younger
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Mystery and innocence are not akin.
— Hosea Ballou
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The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
— Saint Augustine
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Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary†for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that…
— Ron Paul
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The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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