Resemblance Quotes
131 quotes by 114 authors
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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
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
— Jean Cocteau
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For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
— Robert Sommer
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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
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
— Marcel Proust
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The imaginary expression √(-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
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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
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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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