Quotes About Similarity

Petter and I were probably peas in a pod.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

Everything she did reminded me of someone else.

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying? Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

All men, in the vertiginous moment of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

I've given you my emptiness: it may not be unlike your emptiness: in voyages, there are wide reaches of water with no islands:

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

L'impressione che mi resi conto di aver fatto sulla bella mi fece diventare, esattamente come lei desiderava, simile ad uno scemo

But we don't have more protein-coding genes than a chimpanzee. In fact, we have fewer genes than a roundworm. Or a banana.

Irish, Welsh and Scots like to claim Celtic genetic genealogy, despite the fact that 'Celtic' isn't a coherent ancestral population, and cultural similarities betray the fact that according to the latest genetic data, those three groupings are frequently more similar to mainland English people than they are to each other.

The three of us being brought up, even though we didn't know each other in our early lives, on the same type of music, same type of environment, there's a lot of sameness there. It's three peas in a pod, if they'll fit.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

One's first response is that these Beirutis must be savagely insane to murder each other for such trivial divergences. Don't judge us too harshly. At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities. Hundred-year wars were fought over whether Jesus was human in divine form or divine in human form. Belief is murderous.

Mark Twain's quote: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

I think Swedes and Australians dress pretty much the same. It's like a casual laid-back style but still chic. I really like it, it suits me perfectly.

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.