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182 Likeness quotes by 144 unique authors

I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I've gained the confidence to come out with it. I… — Jess Smith
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is… — Ben Jonson
Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried… — Jimmy Carter
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in… — Michel de Montaigne
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an… — Richard Avedon
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most… — Richard Paul Evans
There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible. — Jane Austen
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being. — Thomas Aquinas
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery… — Jacob Bronowski
What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled… — Pablo Neruda
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their… — Charlotte Bronte
Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for… — John Piper
Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest… — Ismail KadarÃ©
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that… — Giacomo Casanova
Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me? — Charlotte Bronte
I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy… — Charlotte Bronte
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. — Frank Herbert
But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and… — H.G. Wells
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize… — Andrew Murray
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by… — George Eliot
After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people… — Marina Tsvetaeva

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