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Quotes About Similarity

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!
~ Bum Phillips
We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
~ Yannick Noah
Tudo que acontece é intrinsecamente semelhante ao homem a quem acontece
~ Aldous Huxley
A word only stands for the ways in which things or happenings of the same general kind are like one another. That's why the word is public. And, being public, it can't possibly stand for the ways in which happenings of the same general kind are unlike one another.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nadie es todo el mundo, ni nadie es repetido. Parecido, puede ser. Repetido, no. Y eso es la vida: encontrar a los parecidos y esquivar a los repetidos. Lo demás llega o no, aparece o no, duele o no
~ Alejandro Palomas
A change of oil…yes, that was what we all needed from time to time, whether we were an engine or a person. And there were other similarities to be explored. Engines had to be handled gently, as did people. Forward gears were better than reverse gears—for people as well as engines.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
You can only wear one pair of shoes at a time," she said. "Rich people are like the rest of us—two feet, ten toes. We are all the same that way.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
[Skin is] the first line of defense for the body. … Our building skins should be more similar to human skin.
~ Doris Kim Sung
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
~ Doug Coupland
If a duplicate is identical, not only in structure,
~ Douglas E. Richards
A number of scientists thought the universe could be conscious, and I had even read a paper that had investigated similarities between the human brain, with its hundred billion neurons, and the cosmos, with its hundred billion or more galaxies.
~ Douglas E. Richards
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
~ Douglas Kennedy
Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.
~ Duane Elmer
Life is like a simile.
~ Terry Carr
Life is like an analogy.
~ Aaron Allston
As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
I didn't laugh, but it was a near thing. It's hard when someone is just exactly like a parody.
~ Jo Walton
All people are alike when they sleep." Jeremiah Lopper paraphrasing Aristotle (p. 146)
~ Joan Bauer
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
~ Joan McIntosh
some running in terror from the whip of subtle simalarity between the madwomens utterd thoughts and their own unuttered ones
~ Joanne Greenberg
I think people are the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
The simple truth is this: Most humans are very much alike. The simple and obvious truth is that there are very few variables to what a person might do, think, fear or desire in any given situation.
~ Ann Leary
Many things will hurt you and me for we are very much alike. But will these things hurt us less if we refuse to accept them? Can we ease our hurts by refusing comfort from those who love us?
~ Ann Nolan Clark