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Quotes About Similarity

a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.
~ William Faulkner
Como tío Billy suele decir, un hombre no es tan diferente de un caballo o una mula, a fin de cuentas, salvo en que una mula o un caballo tiene un poco más de sentido común.
~ William Faulkner
he looked as much like Karl as Cuddles Sakall resembled Argentina Rocca.
~ William Goldman
Same weather over here as back home," I said.
~ China Mieville
Daughter and mother, mother and daughter. Though we would like to think otherwise, how our lives echo each other's.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
You remind me of a young me, Jake!
~ Chris Grabenstein
Most curious is the way that Y/surname patterns differ between countries. In Britain, on average, a man who has the same surname as another is significantly more likely to have a similar Y chromosome, and therefore a common ancestor, than he would with someone of a different surname. But there's a twist: The Y similarity depends on the frequency of the surname within the population. If you are a Smith, for example, the rule does not apply.
~ Christine Kenneally
We were opposites in every way until we grew up, left home, and discovered we were more alike than we'd thought. Sisters only get to be opposites within the family; separated by the world, they become practically identical.
~ Helen Fremont
Et c'était pas un hasard. Je veux dire : on n'était pas là par hasard. On n'avait pas besoin de se le dire pour savoir qu'on était faits du même bois, un bois un peu pourri, mais un beau bois quand même.
~ Henri Loevenbruck
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
In reality it was just what is usually seen in the houses of people of moderate means who want to appear rich, and therefore succeed only in resembling others like themselves: there are damasks, dark wood, plants, rugs, and dull and polished bronzes -- all the things people of a certain class have in order to resemble other people of that class. His house was so like the others that it would never have been noticed, but to him it all seemed to be quite exceptional.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All families are happy, all families are alike.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The old with the old, the young with the young, the hostess by the tea table, on which there were exactly the same cakes in a silver basket as the Panins had at their soiree - everything was exactly the same as with everyone else.
~ Leo Tolstoy
That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.
~ Leonard Bloomfield
Fine. Better than most. But sadly for you there are many heads like it. One hundred. One thousand maybe.
~ Lev Grossman
Tutte le famiglie felici si assomigliano fra loro, ogni famiglia infelice è infelice a suo modo.
~ Lev Tolstoj
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.
~ lewis c s ii
The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.
~ Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
For example, Portugal, northern Iran, and Japan, all located at about the same latitude but lying successively 4,000 miles east or west of each other, are more similar to each other in climate than each is to a location lying even a mere 1,000 miles due south.
~ Jared Diamond
Said by Colin the dragon: It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.
~ Jasper Fforde
Humans are more or less identical except for a few peculiar habits generally delineated by geographic circumstances and historical precedent. But essentially they're all the same and reading from the same rule book.
~ Jasper Fforde
Aram?zda bir yak?nl?k duygusu yok. Birbirimize benziyoruz sadece. Benim gibi o da yaln?z, ama yaln?zl???n?n içine daha çok batm??.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
The people of Ember were just as grubby as the people of Sparks; everyone looked more or less the same.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
~ Jane Goodall