Quotes about likeness
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“In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.”

Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka

“I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Hurt

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Time

“They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Change

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Behavior, Idea

“Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.”

Darren Shan book Lord Loss

Source: Lord Loss

“But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Thinking, Time

“Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. "No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Way, Hell, Dead

“I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.”

Juliet Marillier book Wildwood Dancing

Source: Wildwood Dancing

Truth

“I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.”

Darren Shan book Cirque du Freak

Source: A Living Nightmare

Chance

“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Source: Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Books, Reading

“Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Love, Art, Feeling

“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Context: Listen- God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like-they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American chomping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o - God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.

God, Thinking

“life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!”

Terry McMillan book A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Source: A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Life

“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”

Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Dreams, Reading

“I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die.
--Natalya Shonski”

Christine Feehan book Dark Demon

Source: Dark Demon

Time

“Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
Source: You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics

God, Hate, Painting

“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

Guy

“Why would you do that? Why would you act like you didn't know how to drive?"
"Isn't it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn't. I did it so I'd have a reason to be around you - one I knew you couldn't refuse”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Truth

“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Courage, Learning

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Women, Men, Thinking

“ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday.

DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why?

ISABEL: I was depressed.

DR. RUSH: That's a good reason to come to therapy.”

Lisa Lutz (1970) US author

Source: Revenge of the Spellmans

“My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse

Source: The Laughing Corpse

“Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

Cars, Imagination

“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Silence

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes

World, Faith

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

Love, People

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Collected Poems

Death, Star, Light, Night

“The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.”

Anthony Horowitz book Crocodile Tears

Source: Crocodile Tears

School

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

"This explains Joss perfectly." at Whedonesque.com (15 February 2006)

Love, Happiness, People

“You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”

Edward Rutherfurd New York

Source: New York

God

“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist

“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

Love, Sadness

“He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.”

Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer

Life, Death

“Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Fashion

“This soup tastes like windows”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

God, Time

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

Joshua Ferris (1974) American author

Time

“It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Women, World, Fear, History

“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

Heart

“Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.”

Henry Miller book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Men, Angels, Heart, Drawing

“This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Sex

“Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Sex, Soul, Sense

“She attracted him more than he liked.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“But like everything else, love changed.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

Love, Change

“Unfortunately it’s also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen—it’s invisible and you don’t notice its presence until it’s gone, and then you’re sorry.”

Charles Stross book The Fuller Memorandum

Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 2, “Pointing the Finger” (p. 32)

“He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Home, Coffee

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Love, Life, Peace, Feeling

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

"Araby"
Dubliners (1914)

“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do…
[Lucifer]”

Glen Duncan (1965) British writer

Freedom

“I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i. e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King

People, Dreams, Time

“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”

Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“If you will die for me,
I will die for you
and our graves will be like two lovers washing
their clothes together
in a laundromat
If you will bring the soap
I will bring the bleach.”

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

Lovers, Clothes

“Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

People

“Leo dropped into the pool and approched the cage. "Hola, Tia. Little bit of trouble?"
She [Hera] crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation. "Don't inspect me like I'm one of your machines, Leo Valdez. Get me out of here!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

Life, Change

“New tastes are like new ideas, young man -- the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Idea

“You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

God

“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done”

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist

Country

“Silena, take the Aphrodite crew to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel."

Oh my gods," one of her sisters said. "Fifth Avenue ison our way! We could accessorize, and monsters, like, hate the smell of Givenchy.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, Hate, Way, Sister

“Let's scope the place out," he suggested, heading around the side of the building, "and be careful in the bushes."
"Why?" Amy asked.
"This is South Africa, dude," Dan replied. "Where cobras come from. And not the hot ones, like Ian.”

Peter Lerangis book The Viper's Nest

Source: The Viper's Nest

“Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

People, Star

“I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

People, Guy, Girl, Business

“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”

Siri Hustvedt book The Summer Without Men

Source: The Summer Without Men

Love, Books, Reading

“You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.”

Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer

Source: Isabelle the Navigator

Beauty, Lovers

“I like to think that when I fall,
A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along the wall,
Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”

Robert W. Service Ballads of a Bohemian

Source: Ballads of a Bohemian

Death, Books, Thinking, Sea

“Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“I like the fact of John McCain's head being severed. Like that it will fit so much more nicely up George Bush's butt!”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”

Confucius book Analects

Source: Analects of Confucius

Way

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Dreams

“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”

John Fante book The Brotherhood of the Grape

Source: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Context: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

Women, World, Hell, Universe

“Privacy — like eating and breathing — is one of life's basic requirements.”

Katherine Neville (1945) American novelist

A Calculated Risk: A Novel (1992) https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRDGCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT56&ots=olyqo4o6dc&dq=%E2%80%9CPrivacy%20-%20like%20eating%20and%20breathing%20-%20is%20one%20of%20life%27s%20basic%20requirements%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CPrivacy%20-%20like%20eating%20and%20breathing%20-%20is%20one%20of%20life's%20basic%20requirements%22&f=false

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