Quotes about likeness
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“I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Women, Thinking

“A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.”

Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer

Family, Dogs, Personality, For Mother

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Thinking

“The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn’t really there.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.”

Christina Baker Kline (1964) American writer

Source: Orphan Train

“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”

Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

Way

“How can this be your car? (Nick)
Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Cars, Home

“Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.”

Emma Thompson (1959) British actress and writer

Suffering

“Life should always be like this…. Like lingering over a good meal.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Life

“Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.”

Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

Fate, Sea

“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: Underdog

Life, People, World

“Anyone ever tell you you should be a lawyer? (Otto)
Only Bill when we argue. Besides, I like killing bloodsuckers too much to ever be one of them. Tabitha Deveraux. Pleased to meet you. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Boy, Personality, Perfection

“A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory… a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream… i want to line the pieces up… yours and mine.”

Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist

Source: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 2

Dreams, Memory

“I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.”

Mary Hoffman book City of Flowers

Source: City of Flowers

Life, Thinking

“about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”

John Wyndham book The Chrysalids

Source: The Chrysalids

“Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

People, Heart

“I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang)
Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

People, Thinking, Time, Personality

“I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Dreams

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Death

“Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.”

William J. Bennett (1943) American politician

Happiness, Cats, Business

“I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Love, Bird

“Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

People, Books, Passion

“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

World, Spring, Flowers, Thinking

“I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Fear

“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Imagination, Star, Tree

“I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

History, Idea

“How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Happiness, Stupidity

“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

People

“Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Smile, Distant, Evil

“It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Happiness, Feeling, Nature

“I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: The Powerbook

Love

“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Source: Treasure Box

People, Books, Thinking, Time

“The sea does not like to be restrained.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Sea

“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Children, Time

“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

Way, Travel, Photo, Nature

“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”

Christina Stead book Miss Herbert

Source: Miss Herbert

Truth

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”

Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist

Life, Happiness, Thinking

“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”

Irving Berlin (1888–1989) American composer

Sun, Night

“Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Thorn Queen

“… when men like us do change, the change is profound.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: If You Deceive

Men, Change

“Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine,
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

Drink, Wine

“A problem is something to solve,” Phillip says. “If there’s no solution, it’s not a problem, so stop treating it like one.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Problem

“I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?'
'You can call me whatever you like.'
Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Way

“Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And… well… I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us… I want you to be happy”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Hate, Happiness, Fight

“I'll scream!"
"Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I won't
Breathe or like her
Anymore.
Maybe tomorrow the tides
Will stop.
Maybe tomorrow will bring
No more rainbows.
Maybe tomorrow
She will stop
Asking useless questions.”

Gail Carson Levine book The Wish

Source: The Wish

Question

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

Fear, Peace, Color, Way

“Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.”

Jo Walton (1964) Welsh Canadian writer

Money, Pleasure, Reading, Future

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love, Life, Way

“She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

Feeling, Time

“To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Hate, Business, Partnership

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Life, Fear, Literature

“If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

People

“Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

People, Way, Courage, Problem

“All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee)
Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Chance, Housing

“Who is he?"
"An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating… but there are other ways to understanding.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Way, Understanding, Drawing

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Failure, Success, Heart

“When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.

'You're alive!' Frank marveled.

Percy frowned. 'The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.'

'You didHazel asked.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult”

Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States

Source: The Complete Maus

Feeling

“I feel horrible. She doesn't
love me and I wander around
the house like a sewing machine
that's just finished sewing
a turd to a garbage can lid.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar

Love, Feeling, Housing

“Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

Cats

“People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

People, Feeling

“You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like… like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Truth

“He didn’t want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Life, Dead

“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

World, Change, Time

“I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek.
[That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis. ]”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“When did you get all insightful?" he asked.
"I have no idea," Josh admitted.
"I don't like it."
"Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone."

(Ethan and Josh)”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Almost Perfect

Feeling, Girl, Idea

“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Truth, Way

“Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Dreams, Feeling, Reality

“Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.”

China Miéville (1972) English writer

Search, Science

“There are some people who will never understand what
loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course,
but they will never know. They will never see it from the inside.
They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.”

Jim Butcher book First Lord's Fury

Source: First Lord's Fury

People, World, Imagination, Understanding

“I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Parent, Time

“He likes to be noticed. He’s not exactly low-key.” “I get it,” I said. “Loki. Low-key.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

“But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

Help

“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Death, Men, God, People

“I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

Light, Night

“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Thinking, Time, Past

“The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Idea

“The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Age, Family, Cars, Girl

“He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly… like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

“The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel.
-Manny and Butch”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Dogs, Change, Animals

“Advice for a human

86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Love, Hate, Disease, Art

“Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Life, Birth, Heart

“Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

World, Time

“I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

People, World, Past

“Five hundred souls.
I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Children, Soul

“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Life

“These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hope, Parting

“If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Personality

“"Love is a myth", Grandfather Trout said. "Like summer."
"What?"
"In winter," Grandfather Trout said, "summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer."”

John Crowley book Little, Big

Bk. 5, Ch. 4
Source: Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament (1981)

Love, Winter, Summer

“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark…”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Dogs

Quotes about likeness page 61

Quotes about likeness
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