Quotes About Being Alike

#1. People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

Gary Panter

#2. Maybe being alike isn't what's best. It's bringing out the best in each other that matters.

Katie Kacvinsky

#3. The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

Marguerite Duras

#4. When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike ... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

Maya Angelou

#5. All "favourable" Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness.

George Orwell

#6. Tolstoy had written something about happy families being all alike and unhappy ones each unhappy in its own way.

Alan Bradley

#7. The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

Aristotle.

#8. He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

Stuart McLean

#9. Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

Gautama Buddha

#10. All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

Greta Garbo

#11. Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.

Maya Angelou

#12. Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Charles Studd

#13. Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth being ever seen by two persons alike ... What Pierre chiefly desired was always to transmit his thought to another exactly as he conceived it himself.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

William Banting

#15. Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

George Washington

#16. Pooh," he said. "Much alike, aren't they, this case and that!"
"There is nothing to hinder their being so," said I, "but even if they are not alike and if the man thinks they are, do you believe he will any the less answer what appears to him, whether we forbid him or not?

Plato

#17. Being composed and being off-guard may look alike, but they are quite different. You should first test this out for yourself.

Issai Chozanshi

#18. Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

Nelson Goodman

#19. What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.

Vincent Of Lerins

#20. Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#21. The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

Pat Robertson

#22. What was it like, being married to six actresses?"
"Like being married to one of them. They're all pretty much alike."
"Why'd you keep doing it, then?"
"Hope is the thing with feathers," Trent said, "that tickles your scrotum at the moments when you most need a clear head.

Timothy Hallinan

#23. Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Bernard Meltzer

#25. It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#26. I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

Phil Daniels

#27. When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#28. It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#29. It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
possibilities and grander heights.

Clarence Darrow

#30. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Thomas Aquinas

#31. Wouldn't it be totally wrong and irresponsible of someone like the Apostle John, and especially the Apostle Paul, not to include any mention of hell or eternal torment in their books? And even moreso in the book of Acts, where the Good News is being proclaimed to Jew and Gentile alike?

Julie Ferwerda

#32. To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death - however "humane" - is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Gary L. Francione

#33. The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

Ed McMahon

#34. Indeed, valour and honour alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.

Inazo Nitobe

#35. We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.

Peter Hoeg

#36. Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#37. Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

Lynn Blackmar

#38. Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos

#39. All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Nicolas Malebranche

#40. Priest and wise man and prophet alike felt that their professional well-being was threatened by Jeremiah's singularity. Panicked, they plotted his disgrace. Their "law" and "counsel" and "words" were in danger of being exposed as pious frauds by Jeremiah's honest and passionate life.

Eugene H. Peterson

#41. The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.

Wassily Kandinsky

#42. There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.

Samuel Gompers