Likeness Quotes

“I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,” she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.”
― kerstin gier, Ruby Red

“It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious.
It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator.
The people down here just ate that up!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
“They won’t,” Tyrion said. “They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“The feeling of being hurt, is the proof that you are in love.”
― Ahmed Ayub

“People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink

“Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

“Jika kita menyukai sesuatu, bagaimanapun keadaannya, kita hanya akan tetap menyukainya. Rasa suka itu tidak akan terpengaruh oleh faktor lain. Suka, ya, suka, dan akan begitu walau dilihat dari sudut pandang mana saja.”
― Jee, Because It's You

“Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Lila

“You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.”
― Elizabeth George

“On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“like placo”
― patricia placo

“Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It rained again.The drippings of my thought float with the downpour,trespassing all the murky ways through,painting you in the rainbow view.”
― Madhushree Das

“I am made in the image of God. Therefore, if I don’t know God I can’t know me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Make people like you instantly and hold sway in the long - term”
― Myra Yadav

“The likeness of a man is quite independent; everywhere that it stands, it stands for itself, and we do not require it to mark the site of a particular grave. But I must acknowledge to you to having a strange feeling; even to likenesses I have a kind of disinclination. Whenever I see them they seem to be silently reproaching me. They point to something far away from us,—gone from us; and they remind me how difficult it is to pay right honor to the present.”
― Goethe, Les Affinités électives

“Si c'est un homme, c'est mon prochain, pas mon lointain.”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, La Part de l'autre

“Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God.”
― Sunday Adelaja, Create Your Own Net Worth

“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before, and this gives him a sense at the same time of richness and of understanding. The creative mind is a mind that looks for unexpected likenesses.”
― Jacob Bronowski, A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy

“The likeness between the flower colors doesn't mean, the likeness of fragrances. Similarly, between faces and characters”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Metaphors are experiments with the possible likenesses of unlike things.”
― Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture

“Successful metaphors rely on the unlikeness of things, not upon their likeness.”
― Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture

“A certified, bona fide nutcase': Although he was indeed someone, he believed that he was more of a nut than a man. He just needed somebody to break him, to make him lovelier, but that somebody had to be even nuttier.”
― Criss Jami

“Just as some of the toughest fights physically are between those mostly alike, the roughest of fights verbally are between fighters emotionally alike.”
― Criss Jami