Top 166 Similarity Quotes & Sayings

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age.

The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

High reputation beats high similarity.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

It's not a good idea to match your shoes with a bag too stringently. Go for subtle similarity.

There is no similarity between the character that I played in 'Fukrey' and 'Tamanchey.' The only thing that is similar is that both the girls are confident.

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world.

The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

'Sailaja Reddy Alludu' bears similarity to my father's film 'Allari Alludu,' and it's a fun family entertainer.

The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

I strongly believe that when you are cast in a role, there will be similarity in the character and you - why else would you be chosen for the character?

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.