Top 198 Resemblance Is Quotes & Sayings

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

Call it a coincidence, but my mother used to feel that I bear some resemblance to Poonam Dhillon.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

Scarily, I was only about 11 or 12 when my mum pointed out my resemblance to Stan Laurel. I know he's the ultimate loser, but I was happy to hear it.

The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

I immediately recognised that Freddy's vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine - or vice-versa, I guess - and yeah, the rest is history.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

We understand through resemblance.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

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.

She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.

It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight-in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea-in some, descent is the key,-in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.