Resemblance Is Quotes

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Military

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• Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

  Madame de Stael

  Lying, Differences, Diversity

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• 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.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Whales, Parent

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• 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.

  Joni Mitchell

  War, People, Democracy

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stupid, Too Much, Common

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Perfection, Standards

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.313, Penguin

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• Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

  Antony Sher

  Play, Careers, Historical

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• There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

  Chris Isaak

  Hair, People, Want

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• 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.

  Kevin Hart

  Hair, Skins, Nuggets

  "Kevin Hart: the Realist Husband of Hollywood". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 2, 2013.

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• While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Light, Nails

  "On Photography".

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• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Science, Keys

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10203, Delphi Classics

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Jesus, Humor, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.

  Francis Galton

  Lying, Taken, Artist

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