Resembles Quotes

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.