Akin Quotes

199 quotes by 168 authors

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having… — John Dingell
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is… — Thomas S. Monson
The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing. — Martin Rees
Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter — Larry Merchant
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure,… — Jonathan Martin
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding… — Richard L. Evans
Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with. — Susan Maushart
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our… — Jones Very
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where… — William Beebe
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are… — Aristotle
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and… — Robert Nozick
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life?… — Percival Lowell
I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! — Moliere
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different… — Alfred North Whitehead
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. — Susan Sontag
Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea. — George Matthew Adams
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. — Julia Leigh
But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split… — Nick Park
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas… — Socrates

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