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Quotes About Likeness

Part of that likeness is to feel.
~ Peter Scazzero
It is not the business of the historian to construct a history from preconceived notions and to adjust it to his own liking, but to reproduce it from the best evidence and to let it speak for itself.
~ Philip Schaff
Petter and I were probably peas in a pod.
~ Jon Ronson
The generating of any image is a process in egoless participatory response to some apparent "subject" or "subject-context". The image is not to replicate or "objectify" the apparent "subject" by means of the response. The image is the response itself—ecstatic, beyond and prior to "point of view", "object", separateness, duality, reflection, and likeness.
~ Adi Da Samraj
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
~ Plato
The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God placed humans on a plateau above the rest of creation when he fashioned them in his relational image and likeness. To
~ Josh McDowell
occupations by probability and by similarity in exactly the same way.
~ Daniel Kahneman
To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.
~ James Montgomery Boice
You see, I just love analogies. Give me a good old analogy any day.
~ James St. James
To know beings is implicitly to know God, since all things are in some manner likenesses of divine being, which, in its communicative outflow in creation, shows itself for what it is.
~ Aidan Nichols
My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
~ Billy Mays
We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.
~ Gene Siskel
When there is union of love, the image of the Beloved is so sketched in the will, and drawn so intimately and vividly, that it is true to say that the Beloved lives in the lover and the lover in the Beloved. Love produces such likeness in this transformation of lovers that one can say each is the other and both are one.
~ Ralph Martin
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
~ Viggo Mortensen
The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.
~ Vasily Grossman
Every man is like the company he wont to keep.
~ Euripides
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
~ Plato
The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
~ Orison Swett Marden
A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
~ Jacob Bronowski
These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.
~ Janet Reno
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux