Likening Quotes

#1. The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

#2. In this light your eyes look almost purple. Like black raspberries.'
Belle laughed softly. 'You must be in a state of perpetual hunger. You keep likening me to fruit.

Julia Quinn

#3. Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

Heraclitus

#4. Besh grinned. Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool.

David B. Coe

#5. Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

Rumi

#6. Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind

Janet Frame

#7. A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Aleatha Romig

#8. Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

David Hockney

#9. The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

Hermann Adler

#10. I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Evelyn Waugh

#11. I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

Barry M. Goldwater

#12. Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.

David Jaber

#13. I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

Trevor Donovan

#15. Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Chief Seattle

#16. Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can build its future.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#17. if you want to climb mountains don't practice on molehills

Thabiso Monkoe

#18. Livie, I think you're completely fucked up.
Chunks of cheesecake fly out of my mouth and splatter against the deck's glass panel as I choke on my fork. My sister has a twisted sense of humor.

K.A. Tucker

#19. Every Wolverine fan knows who that is.

Cassie Mae