Resemblance Quotes

131 quotes by 114 authors

Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care… — Alan Ball
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity. — Ben Affleck
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside. — Robert Sommer
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it… — Andrew Marvell
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it… — Richard Baxter
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — Charles Darwin
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the… — Thomas Paine
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.… — Richard Dawkins
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and… — Victor Hugo
In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men… — Benjamin Rush
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
The imaginary expression âˆš(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some… — Augustus De Morgan
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius,… — Aristotle
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell

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