Quotes about likeness
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“You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Interview for Press Association (3 May 1989) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107427 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister

Time

“stanchion, n.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Feeling, Strong

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

Change, Time

“(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect… you know… like being people.”

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) author, activist, professor

Source: Raymond's Run

People, Flowers, Business

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

People

“[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)”

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

Source: Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

“If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

1984: Spring (1984)
1980s

Home

“Boys are like drugs,' her father said, 'just say no.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

Boy

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

Stewart O'Nan (1961) American writer

Source: The Odds: A Love Story

Love, Life, World, Parting

“A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.”

L.A. Meyer (1942–2014) American writer

Girl

“I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days… No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Money, School, Wedding, Dance

“Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Hell, Kiss

“I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity, like a vicious version of Athena.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

Source: Skin Trade

Boy

“I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

Light

“Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Maverick

Time

“Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Feeling, Intelligence

“Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness

Source: Being and Nothingness

Heart

“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are. It’s like the whole tree falling in the forest thing.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

People, Beauty, Tree, Time

“Sometimes you meet a girl and it's like matter and antimatter. You just hate each other for no damn reason.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

Hate, Girl

“What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Coffee

“gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius”

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

Boy

“To those of you who are graduating this afternoon with high honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, 'well done'. And as I like to tell the 'C' students: You, too, can be President”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

2010s, 2015, Remarks at the SMU 100th Spring Commencement (May 2015)
Context: To those of you who are graduating this afternoon with high honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, 'well done'. And as I like to tell the 'C' students: You, too, can be President.

Funny

“hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Hope

“Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

“Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said.
Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it.
Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true… it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”

Diane Duane book High Wizardry

Source: High Wizardry

Time

“I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from The Weary Blues (1926)

World, Soul

“Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

Music

“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Hate, People, Imagination, Girl

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Will: "You are not really dying, are you?"

Jem: "So they tell me."

Will: "I am sorry."

Jem: "No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me."

Will: "I’ll train with you.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Training

“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Time, Training

“Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous
readers.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps
too much ice cream…”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Love, Happiness, Feeling

“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Passion, Hurt

“I liked things better when I didn't understand them.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Understanding

“I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: V is for Vengeance

People, Forgiveness, Forgetting

“If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things."
"What kind of things?"
She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Smile

“I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized… I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet

Death, Feeling

“And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful — how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"Robert Schumann"
Dream Work (1986)
Source: Blue Pastures

Understanding

“jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive.
Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Evil, Clothes

“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number —
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you —
Ye are many — they are few.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

St. 91
(1819)
Source: The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

Sleep

“I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Soul, Star, Personality

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Contributions of Jane Wagner, As Edith Ann

Home, Thinking, Teachers, Teachers' Day

“What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?”
“A piano.”
“Simon.”
“A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Little Fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance,
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

The Fly, st. 1–3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Art, Drink, Singing, Dance

“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“A woman's mind is her most precious weapon. It must not be employed clumsily or prematurely. Much like the aforementioned knife in the back, a clever gibe is most effective when it is unanticipated.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.”

Hilary McKay book Saffy's Angel

Source: Saffy's Angel

Understanding

“Standing on the fringes of life… offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Life, Time, Dance

“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.”

Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist

Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Children

“Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out

of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
Be wet
with a decent happiness.”

Robert Creeley (1926–2005) American poet

Love, Happiness, Lie, Indifference

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

Fashion

“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon

“He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed you? Is there an other way you like it?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Way, Kiss

“Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like… I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

Cars, Feeling, Solitude

“That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

World, Dreams

“He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Way, Heart

“As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

People, Truth, World, Peace

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Anger

“Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

A phrase used in many notable speeches by King, which is actually a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible.
Misattributed
Variant: Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Justice, Water

“Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Time

“I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

God

“I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

Pain, Truth, Soul

“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Thinking, Time

“It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

Princess

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: The Historian

Home

“The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Water, Fight

“So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Thinking

“He’s so beautiful,” she said wistfully. “He’s like an angel.”
“Yep,” I agreed flatly. “The one that fell.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Beauty, Angels

“Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.”

Garth Nix book Lady Friday

Source: Lady Friday

Knowledge, Thinking

“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variant: I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

Hate, School

“The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

World, Peace, Home, Heart