Akin Quotes
199 quotes by 180 authors
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How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging…
— Rachel Nichols
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt…
— Al Pacino
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Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
— Josh Radnor
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Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
— Yann Martel
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then…
— Yann Martel
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money.…
— Wendell Berry
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
— Elie Wiesel
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin…
— Victor Hugo
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the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
— Albert Einstein
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Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all…
— Diana Gabaldon
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A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
— Albert Einstein
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That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the…
— Henri Barbusse
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything…
— Meister Eckhart
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He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I…
— Charlotte Bronte
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For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has…
— Elie Wiesel
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The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's…
— Albert Einstein
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I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and…
— Lisa Kleypas
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