Akin Quotes

199 quotes by 168 authors

The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one… — Hendrik Hertzberg
Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.… — Raymond Carver
I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely a device to… — R A Salvatore
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in… — Eudora Welty
Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy… — Ellen Hopkins
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious… — Jonathan Franzen
To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find. — Caroline Knapp
Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team. — Patricia Briggs
Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had… — Khaled Hosseini
The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: thereâ€™s no end of virtual… — Jonathan Franzen
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. — Marisha Pessl
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel. — David Penhaligon
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has… — Albert Einstein
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a… — Frans de Waal
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way… — Antoine Predock
There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise. — Janine di Giovanni
One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery… — Krista Tippett
Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship. — Matt Roper

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