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Quotes About Similarity

Desearíamos poder mostrarles el mundo mientras duermen. Así no tendrían ninguna duda de cuan similares, cuan confiados, cuan sorprendentes y vulnerables somos todos.
~ David Levithan
You look like some cousin of mine." The latter would work only if you were Asian, but even then it's a little creepy, the implication being "the cousin I have always wanted to undress and ejaculate on.
~ David Sedaris
Madness is madness and genius is genius, and any similarity is purely coincidental. Comparing the two is like comparing normal cellular growth to cancer.
~ David Sosnowski
I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!
~ Rafael Benitez
Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
~ Denis Leary
I think me and Mr. Dolph Lundgren look kind of alike.
~ Sage Northcutt
I'm no different than anyone else.
~ Jack Swigert
Nobody is different from anyone else, no matter what the situation. We're all equal.
~ Jabari Parker
Man sieht, daß sich in allen Schichten der Gesellschaft die Bräuche gleichen und nur in der Art, dem Äußerlichen und der Nuance verschieden sind. Auch die große Gesellschaft hat ihr Rotwelsch; aber dieses Rotwelsch heißt ›der Stil‹.
~ Honore de Balzac
Unless one actually lives day by day without a sense of security, he cannot understand what worlds separated Jesus from Paul at this point. The striking similarity between the social position of Jesus in Palestine and that of the vast majority of American Negroes is obvious to anyone who tarries long over the facts.
~ Howard Thurman
they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in a prison.
~ Unknown
In fact, Wilson and King showed that the difference in the average protein-coding gene sequences of chimps and modern humans was about 1 percent. In other words, the proteins that we use in our day-to-day biology are nearly identical to those that chimpanzees and bonobos use.
~ Ian Tattersall
We were similar cats—alike in so many ways—
~ Unknown
Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.
~ Idries Shah
Igual llama a igual, verdad a verdad, y engaño a engaño.
~ Idries Shah
A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.
~ Idries Shah
Un perro amarillo es hermano del chacal.
~ Idries Shah
Of same kin we and all creations are.
~ Unknown
Cleo McDowell Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
~ Unknown
When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.
~ Cornell Woolrich
You and I are so much the same... You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go... ... But we're the ones that are most scared, and need the most love.
~ Craig Thompson
I know why he picked you. You were his mirror. His perfect, broken mirror.
~ Unknown
Like twinned with unlike is beauty's shock.
~ Cynthia Ozick