Quotes About Akin

I had to bear the sunken glare of his fierce crow-footed eyes if I wanted to know; and so I bore it, reflecting how much certain forms of evil are akin to madness, derived from intense egoism, inflamed by resistance, tearing the soul to pieces, and giving factitious vigour to the body.

'Man Push Cart' is very similar to 'Take Out.'

When we love a person, we love all that belongs to him; we extend to the children the affection we feel for the parent. Now every Soul is a daughter of the [Godhead]. How can this world be separated from the spiritual world? Those who despise what is so nearly akin to the spiritual world, prove that they know nothing of the spiritual world, except in name. .

The discovery of the art of reading is intimate, obscure, secret, almost impossible to explain, akin to falling in love.

John Wild, however, suggested that a Roman breeding programme produced a sheep more akin to the Orkney sheep of South Ronaldsay that produced a thicker fleece,

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

I can understand the concept of the "reluctant reader," but for me it's akin to saying somebody really doesn't like to eat. Or breathe.

It is said, you know, that hatred is very akin to love. There is too much to dislike, he told her. There are too many irritants. There is too much bitterness and lack of trust. There is too much— Passion? she suggested.

Spring's imminence was a comfort akin to a favourite piece of music playing quietly in the background, all of the time.

Fineas Rigg approached him. Ays had a horrible feeling of recognition, which had nothing to do with appearances, or any kindling of memory. There was something else through which he and Rigg were akin, and Ays far from liked the thought of that.

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

it is impossible to "safety proof" a national park, and those parks are often more akin to Jurassic Park than to Disneyland.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.

Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

In an atmosphere where compromise is viewed as akin to sedition, the result is a dynamic in which national security is often the victim.