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Quotes About Similarity

Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
~ Louisa May Alcott
As friends, you are very happy, and your frequent quarrels soon blow over, but I fear you would both rebel if you were mated for life. You are too much alike, and to fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
~ Louisa May Alcott
His similarity to his father in thought and outlook is almost weird.
~ Ron Chernow
the two J. P. Morgans even walked and talked alike.
~ Ron Chernow
One also suspects that the couple clashed as a result of their very similarity.
~ Ron Chernow
Birds of a feather always ended up sticking together.
~ Rosa Montero
Hay dos afirmaciones opuestas que sin embargo son igualmente válidas, porque la vida es contradictoria y paradójica, y esas afirmaciones son: Verdad número uno: Todos somos iguales. Verdad número dos: Todos somos diferentes.
~ Rosa Montero
having nothing better to do, meandered off to a coffee shop and sat facing each other for a couple of hours, neither of them talking much but each coming to the general conclusion that the other was a person rather like himself...
~ Ry? Murakami
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
~ Salman Rushdie
As a people, we are obsessed with correspondences. Similarities between this and that, between apparently unconnected things, make us clap our hands delightedly when we find them out. It is a sort of national longing for form—or perhaps simply an expression of our deep belief that forms lie hidden within reality; that meaning reveals itself only in flashes.
~ Salman Rushdie
This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
~ Salman Rushdie
The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
~ Salman Rushdie
Mogor had been right. The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
~ Salman Rushdie
The story she then told was as all attempts at sympathy are: an effort to match in form and size and detail what another has known: to hold one experience next to another the way lovers and children match fingers and hands, as if these two, side by side, are linked by their likeness, are both identical and unique.
~ Alice McDermott
Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
~ Alice Sebold
Like snowflakes, none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before.
~ Alice Sebold
Most times mens look pretty much alike to me.
~ Alice Walker
Most people have difficulty thinking of themselves as just another animal. They refuse to face the fact that 96% of what can be found in their bodies can also be found inside a pig or a horse or that our DNA is 97. 5% identical to that of a gorilla and 98. 4% to that of a chimpanzee. The only thing that makes us different from other animals is our ability to think and make forward plans.
~ Allan Pease Barbara Pease
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
~ Ambrose Bierce
n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Zachwyt nad kim?: serdeczne uznanie, ?e kto? przypomina nas samych.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A Spanish study illustrates this perfectly. Researchers at the Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory at the Spanish National Cancer Center in Madrid studied 40 pairs of identical twins, ranging in age from 3 to 74. They found that younger twins who had similar lifestyles and spent more years together had similar epigenetic patterns, while older twins, in particular those with dissimilar lifestyles who spent fewer years together, had very different epigenetic patterns.13
~ Joe Dispenza
Our love is like. Our love is only like.
~ Joey Comeau
If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, "Like people everywhere!" Uniformity marks the human race.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe