Quotes About Similarity

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

I was similar to Trump well before I joined his campaign.

Considering how much animals act like us, share our physiological reactions, have the same facial expressions, and possess the same sort of brains wouldn't it be strange indeed if their internal experiences were radically different?

Cuando los animales de carne van, con paso lento por el pasillo que los conduce a su espantoso destino, con el miedo en las entrañas, el pelo erizado y el culo lleno de mierda, notamos más que nunca el parentesco y el parecido que tienen con nosotros. Miran la muerte con los mismos ojos.

similarity to the dentalia of the Yurok is hard to ignore. Thinking in money made money.

It's just six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Adolin might claim he was a different from his father, but in fact they were two shades of the same paint. Often, two similar colors clashed worse than wildly different ones would.

It was nice to be reminded that, for all their differences, there were occasional things that she and Jasnah shared. She just wished that ignorance weren't at the top of the list.

He passed the first six houses with sadness rather than distaste. They tried so hard, he thought. The Crescent in Edinburgh had been a row of houses all very much alike, too. But similarity, when it has money behind it, becomes a solid wall of convention, of permanence, even of defiance. Similarity, conceived and born in poverty, becomes an inferiority complex.

Compassion- which means, literally, to suffer with- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, What difference do you make? but What do you have in common? It is not excelling but serving that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

We have so many points in common that it is like looking at myself in a cracked mirror.

I'm as good as her dog

We are very like the English, — are, in fact, English under a different sky.

Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

I think Too Faced is the yin to my yang. When you look at Kat Von D beauty and Too Faced and put them together, they look like complete opposites, but there are tons of similarities.

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

Right now I'm living my boyhood dream, which was to play for a European club. The fact that it's a huge club like Barcelona makes it a tremendous honour. I like everything about the city: the climate, the people. It's quite similar to Brazil, which helps a lot. There's even a beach!

There is no such thing as reincarnation, but only similar incarnation.

To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.