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Quotes About Similarities

As épocas que mais amaram as mulheres (...) foram as épocas em que (...) os homens encararam as mulheres como semelhantes.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I feel an irrational craving to gaze at his familiar face from this place of safety all night. But I can't. And I'm being stupid, because this isn't old Joe, whom I loved and understood. This is new Joe, who is cruel and inexplicable. They only look the same.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.
~ Michelle Paver
All of the Groundlings you meet, you're like, 'You're like me!' You were that kid in high school, too!'
~ Mikey Day
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies
~ George Orwell
Mothers and daughters: two circles, and the all-important bounded sections where they are complete unto themselves. Daughters perhaps have a tendency to point at the differences, mothers to point at the commonalities.
~ Sarah Ruhl
The reality is that each of our churches has created a Christian culture and Christian life for likes and sames and similiarities and identicals. Instead of powering God's grand social experiment, we've cut up God's plan into segregated groups, with the incredibly aggravating and God-dishonoring result that most of us are invisible to one another.
~ Scot McKnight
And I correct you again. Difficult. 'Difficult' and 'impossible' are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.
~ Scott Lynch
I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.
~ Christian Louboutin
I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.
~ Clive Anderson
I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
~ Donald Kagan
We are all alike on the inside.
~ Mark Twain
Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)
~ Martha Minow
When we look away from the importance of the erotic in the development and sustenance of our power, or when we look away from ourselves as we satisfy our erotic needs in concert with others, we use each other as objects of satisfaction rather than share our joy in the satisfying, rather than make connection with our similarities and our differences.
~ Audre Lorde
it is similar to the central bank balance sheets of other major industrial countries.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I thought America was different, but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.
~ Park Yeon-mi
While I understand the Howard Stern comparisons to help contextualize my craft for other people, and while I relate to the moral stance he took against a bigger corporate machine, that's probably where our similarities stop.
~ Joe Budden
We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
~ Virginia Satir
The human brain most resembles that of Jersey cows at about six months."*
~ Mary Roach
Either human beings must be more instinctive, or animals must be more conscious than we had previously suspected. The similarities, not the differences, were what caught the attention.
~ Matt Ridley
Men differ in their virtues, if any," said Gail Wynand, explaining his policy, "but they are alike in their vices.
~ Ayn Rand
Men differ in their virtues, if any, but they are alike in their vices.
~ Ayn Rand
A movement that recognizes our biological similarity but denies the diversity of our priorities cannot be a women's health movement, it can only be some women's health movement.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
The world's religious rivals are clearly related, but they are more like second cousins than identical twins. They do not teach the same doctrines. They do not perform the same rituals. And they do not share the same goals.
~ Stephen Prothero