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Quotes About Similarities

In truth, the 'populist anger' fueling Trump's coalition is fundamentally different from Sanders' 'progressive populism.' The superficial similarities between the two end when they talk about solutions.
~ Tom Tancredo
Mithraism predated Christianity yet bore uncanny similarities. Mithra's birthday was celebrated on December 25. The god's worship involved baptism and the consumption of a sacred meal of bread and wine. Mithra also had twelve disciples, held Sunday sacred, and described a heaven and a hell. Upon his death, Mithra was also buried in a tomb, only to rise again in three days.
~ James Rollins
I read The Great Gatsby. It is one of my favorite books and I had taken it out of the library in hopes that it would cheer me up; of course, it only made me feel worse, since in my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.
~ Donna Tartt
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)
~ Alan Lee
The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.
~ George Packer
There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I mean listen, ultimately I'm positive George Lucas was inspired by 'Dune' when he made 'Star Wars.' I don't know if that's sacrilegious to talk about, but there are a lot of similarities in some areas, so you could tell he was definitely influenced by that.
~ Greig Fraser
Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
~ Ray Bourhis
A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.
~ Edward Zwick
It is true that there are some surface similarities between my mother and Mrinalini's character since both were successful commercial actresses in the 1970s in Bengali cinema. In that sense I have taken cues from my mother about how to portray the younger Mrinalini.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different later on have fundamental similarities in the way they form.
~ Alice Roberts
You and I are from two different worlds. Nonsense. We have much in common. We both like books, dogs, poems, Sir Walter Scott, dogs - I could go on. You listed dogs twice. It does not matter; I still made my point. No, you haven't.
~ Karen Hawkins
The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
~ Norman Whiteside
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
~ Robert Breault
I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!
~ Liane Moriarty
I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].
~ Philip Glass
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
~ Yehuda Amichai
We are too focused in our differences to see how much we already share.
~ Various
I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.
~ George Clooney
A quote often misattributed to Mark Twain has it that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
~ William J. Bernstein
For all their obvious differences, the pope and Mussolini were alike in many ways. Both could have no real friends, for friendship implied equality.
~ David I. Kertzer
The children of God have more in common then they have differences.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.
~ G.K. Chesterton