Resemblance Quotes

131 quotes by 114 authors

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less… — Susan Sontag
When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you… — Leonardo da Vinci
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to… — George Washington
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses… — Louis Aragon
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they… — Nicolas Chamfort
I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there. — Groucho Marx
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein
We have not found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance that it bears to the regimes in our… — Osama bin Laden
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and… — Osama bin Laden
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They… — Joseph Kastein
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the… — Socrates
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give… — Bill Gates
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the… — Fanny Burney
The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves… — Auguste Rodin
For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them bear any resemblance… — Rick Renzi
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
Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it. — Michael Medved

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