Resemble Quotes

236 quotes by 213 authors

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and… — H. L. Mencken
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us… — Albert Camus
A well-thought-out story doesnâ€™t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. — Isaac Babel
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build… — Ellen Wittlinger
It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. — Stephen R. Donaldson
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object… — Marquis de Sade
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to… — George Orwell
I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some… — Michael Cunningham
â€¦all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. — Dante Alighieri
Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now… — Cassandra Clare
The others had taken Valek's return in stride, although Janco made a comment about Valek's lack of hair. "You ever notice how couples start to… — Maria V. Snyder
Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book. — Julia Quinn
My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms. — Mark Z. Danielewski
A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, heâ€™ll say it is because… — Malcolm Gladwell
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. Itâ€™s… — Andre Gide
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way. — Jim Benton
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their… — Alain de Botton
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in… — Maximilien Robespierre

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