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Quotes About Similarity

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Nevertheless, with respect to cost development, there is a striking similarity between these and other major projects: there is a tendency towards a significant underestimation of costs during project appraisal. This is also the conclusion we draw when we review data from a large number of major transport infrastructure projects, and from other types of project as well.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead supposedly told her students, "You're absolutely unique, just like everyone else." Projects are like that. Whatever sets a project apart, it shares other characteristics with projects in its class.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
telling me there's no difference between the moon and the Earth?
~ Bertolt Brecht
ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
~ bierce ambrose vi
The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man...
~ Billie Letts
The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.
~ Donovan
As far as past men go, I loved Jeff Hardy. He reminds me of my husband in a way. He's quieter but has a presence in the ring that's, like, wow.
~ Brie Bella
I think that it's not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else's, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it's really not that.
~ Jennifer Garner
I always mention Bobby Roode. We just click on a lot of different levels. We grew up appreciating the same type of wrestler and same type of wrestling. We are similar students to the game.
~ Austin Aries
A fiatal lány mintha önmagával találkozott volna ezekben a régi történetekben: elcsodálkozott, mennyire hasonlók a gondolataik, s mennyire azonosak a vágyaik. Mert minden szív azt képzeli: Å' remegett meg elÅ'ször attól a sok élménytÅ'l, ami megdobbantotta már az elsÅ' emberek szívét, és meg fogja dobogtatni az utolsó férfiét és az utolsó asszonyét is.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.
~ Harlan Coben
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
~ Joe Dante
If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago.
~ Martin Rees
How many soaps does P&G make? In a sense, they're all the same. Can you tell me the difference between trading soybeans, cotton and rubber? They're all soaps to us.
~ Whitney MacMillan
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
~ Georges Rouault
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
~ William Butler Yeats
But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.
~ Carl Sagan
Did you know they call the tower the "Iron Lady"? Hmm. Isn't that Margaret Thatched called that, too? Frankly, they don't look anything alike to me. For one thing, Maggie has two legs, and the Parisian Iron Lady has four on the floor, like me.
~ Sheron Long
Fifty percent of human DNA is identical to the DNA of a banana. —
~ Sheryl Scarborough
Great minds think alike.
~ Simone Elkeles
I love your silences, they are like mine.
~ Anais Nin
We can only love a person who eats what we eat.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.
~ Garth Stein