Quotes About Similarity

The woeful fright in the coal-smutted face made her suddenly so sorry that she could scarcely bear it. One of her queer thoughts rushed into her mind. She put her hand against Becky's cheek. Why, she said, we are just the same—I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

We are just the same—I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

Soltanto i progressisti pensano davvero. Soltanto i progressisti sono intellettuali. Soltanto i progressisti capiscono i bisogni dei loro simili. Quanta cattiveria si annidava in quella parola!, pensò Odrade. Quanto ego segreto che esigeva di sentirsi superiore.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

And it turns out we really do keep writing the same thing. I ask whether you're sick and then you write about it, I want to die and then you do, I want stamps and then you want stamps, sometimes I want to cry on your shoulder like a little boy and then you want to cry on mine like a little girl. And sometimes and ten times and a thousand times and always I want to be with you and you are saying the same thing. Enough, enough.

When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.

New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.

If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

The first thing I do when I start a role is I look to see where we're similar. What do you get for nothing, you know?

I personally think 'Power' is much more similar to 'The Sopranos' in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'. ... 'You'd be surprised' wouldn't be a bad motto either.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Suddenly he understood this as a condition of things – if you could see the patterns the waves made, or remember the shapes of a million small white clouds, there it would be, a boiling, inexplicable, vertiginous similarity in all the processes of the world, roaring silently away from you in ever-shifting repetitions, always the same, never the same thing twice.

But that's exactly what we have on Camazotz. Complete equality. Everybody exactly alike. For a moment her brain reeled with confusion. Then came a moment of blazing truth. No! she cried triumphantly. Like and equal are not the same thing at all!...Like and equal are two entirely different things.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

The people that surround us mirror who we are.

Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.

I love your silences, they are like mine.

the discovery of each other brings a kind of peace, because it brings the certitude that we are right. We are stronger together ... we will have less doubts. This seemed deeply true, yet I wonder if it is good to ally similarities, one agreeing with the other, as twins might, so that this might give an illusion of balance, reassure us about our orientation, or whether we should seek this by contrast with others

When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances. They are all alike, I said to her. When I talk to one, I feel as if I were talking to the whole lot. But, my dear, said Marceline, you can't expect each of them to be different from the others. The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.

The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.

My own experience is that night and day are more alike than different -- in which case they couldn't possibly be opposite.