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Quotes About Similarity

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What all this means is that the ecosystems of cities around the world are growing more and more alike; their communities of plants and animals, fungi, single-celled organisms, and viruses are slowly inching toward a single globalized, multi-purpose urban biodiversity. And even if the exact species across cities may not be identical, you will find similar species playing similar roles.
~ Unknown
Osso é mais igual que pedra.
~ Mia Couto
I think much of her - I mean my mother - and of how alike we were, and how we were both destroyed by believing it was in our own hands to punish those who had done wrong to us.
~ Unknown
Looks just like a monkey.
~ Unknown
My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
~ Michael Haneke
Formal-equivalence translations emphasize the similarity in the linguistic forms (such as vocabulary and grammatical structures) between the source language and the target language. Functional-equivalence translations, on the other hand, stress the similarity in linguistic function (meaning) between the two languages.8
~ Unknown
There are no exact analogies.
~ Michael Kurland
We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Tuned pianos are pretty much alike, but no pianos are out of tune the same.
~ Michael Ventura
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between princes.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
~ Mitch Hedberg
Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les découvrent différents
~ Moliere
Rocky doesn't act nothing like me. Apollo Creed, the way he dances, the way he jabs, the way he talks.... That's me.
~ Muhammad Ali
An art critic and a psychologist are very similar to each other, they both look for insanity in abstraction, a grain of logic.
~ Unknown
Like many other Jews of his day, Saul of Tarsus, thinking as a Jew while taking on board the theories of the wider world, would reflect on the similarity and dissimilarity between the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of Israel.
~ Unknown
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
~ Nancy Banks-Smith
He started touching me. 'How old are you?' He ran his hands over my nose, my mouth, my eyes. I was paralysed. 'Nine. What about you?' 'Nine.' 'When's your birthday?' 'The twelfth of September. And yours?' 'The Twentieth of November.' 'What's your name?' 'Michele. Michele Amitrano. What year are you in at school?' 'The fourth. What about you?' 'The fourth.' 'Same.' 'Same' 'I'm thirsty.' I gave him the bottle
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
Yep. It's basically the same car as a VW Touareg,
~ Unknown
You and I come custom-equipped in much the same way. They don't call babies bundles of joy for nothing.
~ Nick Carter
Human beings are more alike than different—damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn't have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Very Like a Whale
~ Ogden Nash
The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
~ Unknown
All men are alike... I believe that all of the so-called "anxiety of the age" — men frightened by one another, every known principle violated, effort mocked, happiness denied, beauty defiled, honor dragged down — originates in this one incredible expression.
~ Osamu Dazai