Akin Quotes

199 quotes by 168 authors

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life. — Thomas Jane
I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't… — Steve Leveen
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he… — Plato
The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the… — Harlan Ellison
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like. — Amy Poehler
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and… — Henry Stephens Salt
Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th… — David Letterman
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying… — John Greenleaf Whittier
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… — Matthew Arnold
The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light;… — John Paul Caponigro
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even… — Josip Novakovich
Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have… — Barry Goldwater
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer,… — Alan Dershowitz
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. — Maureen Dowd
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. — Trevor Dunn
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and… — Benjamin Netanyahu

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