Quotes about likeness
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War, People, Freedom

“A good sign as to whether there is free speech is, "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?"”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022 https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_elon_musk_talks_twitter_tesla_and_how_his_brain_works_live_at_ted2022, April 14, 2022 (at 19:39)

“We recognise two varieties of spirit, one of which is called the soul (ψυχή), but the other is greater than the soul, an image and likeness of God: both existed in the first men, that in one sense they might be material (ὑλικοί), and in another superior to matter.”

Tatian Address to the Greeks

Chap. xii.—The two kinds of spirits.
Address to the Greeks

Men, God, Soul, Sense

“For every year of formal education, one is provided a key to success. The more keys one acquires, the more likely; success.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1979

Education, Success

“Even the best thought is not as good as the moment you detach from it. Even the most important content isn't as important as the moment you learn you can do without it. Like a good teacher.”

Joshua Leavitt

Learning, Teachers

“Why not live like a cappuccino, black and white together?”

TriGuiLe

“If you approach a negotiation thinking the other guy thinks like you, you are wrong. That's not empathy, that's a projection.”

Chris Voss book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Guy, Thinking

“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

1880s
Source: Ibid, January 1886 https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks

Thinking, Dead

“I like the word fuck. Fucking deal with it and move on to the first fucking question you have.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

Interview. Citation needed.

Question

“We value things like stability, control and feeling good. We often see truth as an oppositional force to these things, when in reality, truth is our only way of actually achieving these things.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Truth, Way, Feeling, Reality

“Group consciousness is something that is not widely understood, yet it is extremely powerful and can, if you are not careful, often overcome individual consciousness. If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

“Just like water and air, connection with others is a basic human need.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Water

“A positive mindset is like a magnet, it attracts success and happiness.”

Justin Guerra

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11654665-a-positive-mindset-is-like-a-magnet-it-attracts-success

Happiness, Success

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”

Karl Marx book The German Ideology

Source: Karl Marx. The German Ideology. 1845

Men

“Love is like walking a tightrope - if you become aware of it, you've fallen.”

Teodor Burnar

Love

“People who were wounded by being incompatible with their family and therefore being pushed away, shamed and rejected for who they are, are desperate to belong. They are so desperate for connection that they commit to people who are incompatible to them even after they become aware of the incompatibility. It is a bit like being so desperate for water that you'll drink it even if you know it is poisoned.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

People, Family, Drink, Water

“The truth will hit you like a smack in the face, but it will be the best smack in the world.”

Ralph Smart

Truth, World

“Ultimately, both self and belief drift away, like autumn leaves in a stream.”

Ladybelle Fiske (nickname)

Autumn

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“Sometimes the plot seems like a fissure in the city, at other times like a symptom.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

Time

“I'm struggling like a pig.”

Rubens Barrichello (1972) Brazilian racing driver

“She makes me feel like it's raining outside”

Tom DeLonge (1975) American rock musician

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Feeling

“If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Guy

“Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”

Karin Slaughter (1971) US-american crime writer

Source: Pretty Girls

“I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

World, Feeling, Time

“Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Housing

“He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving -- that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Pain, Sadness, Way, Memory

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”

Elmore Leonard (1925–2013) American novelist and screenwriter

Newsweek (April 22, 1985)
Source: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?”

Catherine Ryan Hyde (1955) American writer

Source: Pay It Forward

Sense

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”

John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer

World, Dreams, Art

“… such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: Invisible Woman: New & Selected Poems, 1970-1982

Sun

“Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.”

Shannon Hale River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

“Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path—all they do is trip you up.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“Commander: What's that?
Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

“Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. But she did something that surprised me even more…

She kissed me.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Kiss

“Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Are you sulking?”
“Me? No. I don’t sulk.”
“You sound like you’re sulking.”
“I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

Waiting

“Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

Women, Men, Family, Change

“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead. Well, I'm one of them. don't worry - I'm not like the Strigoi. But I did die once (I don't recommend it).”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Dead

“One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid… One wants… But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

Life, Time, Perfection

“I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Pain, Drink

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”

Sylvia Townsend Warner book Lolly Willowes

Source: Lolly Willowes

Tree

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Love, Reality, Reading

“You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

Lying

“The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

“I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Love, Parent

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

Law, Nature, Thinking

“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it… You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Forgiveness, Learning

“We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine… forever.
-Tōshirō Hitsugaya (Bleach)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Way, Time

“A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”

Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States

Strong, Water

“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”

William H. Gass (1924–2017) Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

Dreams, Housing, Madness

“Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Sadness, Feeling

“I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

Time

“The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.”

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 17
Context: I got into bed, opened the bottle, worked the pillow into a hard knot behind my back, took a deep breath, and sat in the dark looking out of the window. It was the first time I had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took a drink of wine.

Food, Solitude, Water, Dependency