Quotes About Analogy Life

#1. I was feeling like a rock in a stream with the water passing by me, not fully engaging in life with this heavy burden hanging over me.

Lisa Bonavita

#2. The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.

J.D. Greear

#3. Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Muhammad Iqbal

#4. Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find the bull among the matador cells

Yann Martel

#5. Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.

Olivier Magny

#6. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

#7. That's what Proust calls it. On those rare occasions when the miracle of an analogy had made me escape from the present. That's the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you're alive - the backward ache. That's what music is.

Adam Haslett

#8. I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Yann Martel

#10. Life is like an analogy.

Aaron Allston

#11. Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

Pliny The Elder

#12. By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#13. Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Johannes Tauler

#14. The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe ... and yet the music goes on.

Steve Toltz

#15. As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.

Hugh Everett III

#16. When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

Fetty Wap

#17. It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

Wendell Berry

#18. The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#19. We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

David Platt

#20. Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies.

Chila Woychik

#21. All my working life I have remembered his brilliant analogy between the law of conservation of energy and the problem of trying to dry yourself with wet towels.

Anonymous

#22. They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion).

Hanya Yanagihara

#23. Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Paul Ruffin

#24. ...they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have "liftoff" power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

Ravi Zacharias

#25. That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

Ellen Dreyer

#26. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#27. When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.

Wovoka