Resemble Quotes

236 Resemble quotes by 213 unique authors

Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something… — C.S. Lewis
I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the… — James Anthony Froude
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells.… — Karl Marx
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father. — Denis Diderot
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. — Thomas Hood
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The… — David Mamet
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. — Francois Mauriac
I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but… — Maria Mitchell
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out… — Tom Robbins
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is… — Marquis de Sade
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. — George Sand
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means… — Marjane Satrapi
Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we… — Daniel Tammet
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit… — Ellen G. White
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby
For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all,… — David Sedaris
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is… — Italo Calvino
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of… — Jean Genet
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck

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