Resembling Quotes
64 quotes by 60 authors
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
— Aristotle
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as…
— Teresa of Avila
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades…
— Italo Calvino
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I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who…
— Candace Pert
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of…
— Andre Gide
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The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you're ruggedly handsome. When you make the money…
— Jim Valvano
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Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
— Blaise Pascal
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses:…
— Karl Popper
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof…
— King James I
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A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules…
— Peter Atkins
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
— Jane Porter
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I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.
— Emile M. Cioran
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But if the brain is not like a computer, then what is it like? What kind of model can we form in regard to its…
— Richard Restak
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There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a…
— Noam Chomsky
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It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
— Tony Abbott
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Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it…
— Adrian Goldsworthy
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