Quotes About Similarity

When we meet somebody who is like us, we feel more safe, mainly because we understand the person better.

Side by side they were very much alike, in similarity less of lineament than of manner and bearing, a correspondence of gestures which bounced and echoed between them so that a blink seemed to reverberate, moments later, in a twitch of the other's eyelid.

metaphor (n) a figure of speech that says that one thing is another different thing as a way to compare the two and note their similarities; for example: "my mother is a battleship" or "school was a rollercoaster

It was such a relief to realize someone else had a weird vivid inner life like my own!

My mother has a gap between her two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar. Each child in this family has the same space connecting us.

Which means that living things are involved in an open dialogue with the universe, a free exchange of information and influence that unites all life into one vast organism that is itself part of an even larger dynamic structure. There is no escaping the conclusion that the basic similarity in structure and function are ties that bind all life together and that man, for all his special features, is an integral part of this whole.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all.

At most, a certain resemblance might have been observed.

Er Schrieb an Helen, dass Jungsein zum Teil auch aus dem Gefühl besteht, dass es niemanden gibt, der dir genug ähnelt um dich zu verstehen

We are all born equally far from the sun.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

We are the children of one creator. We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal.

Everything around me looks like me and I look like nothing here

From afar, the poems come. I resemble you, yet I do not become you. I become you, yet I do not resemble you.

You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same stubborn streak, the same common sense. Lots of things about you and him are the same.

We're really not that different from monkeys. What's the difference? Pants? What's the difference between grunting and "Oh, email.

A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that they are similar and from this tendency we create magics and store them for retelling.