Resembling Quotes

64 Resembling quotes by 59 unique authors

I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation… — Ian Mcewan
The Bhagavad Gitaâ€”that ancient Indian Yogic textâ€”says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody elseâ€™s… — Elizabeth Gilbert
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir… — David Eddings
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something… — Suzanne Collins
It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on… — Suzanne Collins
Do you suppose we can take that as evidence? We could cut out the sections." Jonas snorted, "You can try taking a saw to that… — Christine Feehan
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling… — Vladimir Nabokov
Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or… — Elizabeth Wein
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine… — Jeffrey Eugenides
She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a… — Rick Riordan
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years. — Barton Gellman
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a… — Orhan Pamuk
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling… — Edward Frederic Benson
In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering… — Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily… — Roxane Gay
As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which… — Arthur Phillips

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