Top 100 Quotes About Similarity
#1. When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.
Tariq Ramadan
#2. What is essential to the condition of plurality is this fine balance between similarity and dissimilarity among the partners of the exchange.
Rafael A. Calvo
#3. Side by side they were very much alike, in similarity less of lineament than of manner and bearing, a correspondence of gestures which bounced and echoed between them so that a blink seemed to reverberate, moments later, in a twitch of the other's eyelid.
Donna Tartt
#4. The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'
Vonda Shepard
#5. One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
Brian Michael Bendis
#6. Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep
#7. There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
Paul Dirac
#8. For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.
Kate Klise
#9. There is, however, a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like part of the act.
Tom Robbins
#10. The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.
Steven Pinker
#11. The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#12. Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.
Charles Darwin
#13. In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
Peter Ackroyd
#14. I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
Brian Eno
#15. Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#16. Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.
Mike Murdock
#17. The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
Pat Brown
#18. I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.
Glenn Branca
#19. Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.
James Gleick
#20. Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.
Martha Gellhorn
#21. The more aware individuals are of the themes that are central to their own sense of personal identity, the better they can recognize the dimensions of similarity and difference in other people that will contribute to intimate relationships.
Barbara M. Newman
#22. We like people who are similar to us. This fact seems to hold true whether the similarity is in the area of opinions, personality traits, background, or life-style.
Robert B. Cialdini
#23. Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno
#24. Hen he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark,
'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that moment he did not yet know how right he was.
Jose Saramago
#25. The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from power, is entirely coincidental.
Thomas Gately Briody
#26. The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
Benjamin McKenzie
#27. The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar.
Aristotle.
#28. Doing crime films ... maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.
William Monahan
#29. As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
George Soros
#30. One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.
David Levithan
#31. Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.
Kristin Cashore
#32. with the formula: "Any similarity of characters
Laurent Binet
#33. I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
Greg Graffin
#34. Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
#35. The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#36. there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.
John Wooden
#37. Not that she really wanted to mess with a pregnant woman. There was too much similarity between them and pit bulls for her liking.
Maya Banks
#38. Aristotle said29 that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of similarity in dissimilars.
Robert Bosnak
#39. The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit.
Marc Guggenheim
#40. Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
Karl Abraham
#41. As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure, the struggle will generally be more severe between them, if they come into competition with each other, than between the species of distinct genera.
Charles Darwin
#42. Similarity of opinion is not always - I think not often - needed for fullness and perfection of love.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#43. The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map ...
Alfred Korzybski
#44. The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
Frans De Waal
#45. There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.
Cam Newton
#46. The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.
J. B. Jackson
#47. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.
Billy Graham
#48. When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is of no avail to unite them in fellowship.
Augustine Of Hippo
#49. I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
Miriam Toews
#50. The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.
James Gleick
#51. This man, who was so experienced in love, couldn't distinguish the dissimilarity in the emotions, behind the similarity of the expressions.
Gustave Flaubert
#52. There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
Ben Hogan
#53. An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.
Avey Tare
#54. We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.
Victor Hugo
#55. The idea of a character dichotomy between women and men has been overwhelmingly, decisively, refuted. The broad psychological similarity of men and women as groups can be regarded, on the volume of evidence supporting it, as one of the best-established generalizations in all the human sciences.
Raewyn W. Connell
#56. And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.
Juan Goytisolo
#57. The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.
Richard Asher
#58. There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
Robert Plant
#59. INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
George Bernard Shaw
#61. There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.
Stanley Nelson Jr.
#62. In general, people chose friends of similar age and race. But if the friend lived down the hall, then age and race became a lot less important. Proximity overpowered similarity.
Anonymous
#63. Is THIS what religion and faith have done to us? Has religious belief thrown us into opposing camps where we cannot even talk of our similarity, but just point to difference?
David Click
#64. There's a biological basis for music, and that biological basis is the similarity between music and speech," said Purves. "That's the reason we like music. Music is far more complex than [the ratios of] Pythagoras. The reason doesn't have to do with mathematics, it has to do with biology.
David Byrne
#65. Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
Gloria Steinem
#66. Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
#67. In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.
Cornelius Nepos
#68. Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#69. Similarity is the shadow of difference. Two things are similar by virtue of their difference from another; or different by virtue of one's similarity to a third. So it is with individuals.
Matt Ridley
#70. There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.
Tom Robbins
#71. Only the candles and the soap were of German origin. They had a ghostly, opalescent similarity. The British had no way of knowing it, but the candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#72. The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: And behold, what he had done was good.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#73. The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell
#74. There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
A. Alfred Taubman
#76. History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things. However, what is a similarity? My Juliet is the sun: in what sense? A
Kim Stanley Robinson
#79. I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques ... noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism ... and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
Margaret Thatcher
#80. I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.
Miyavi
#81. Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.
Robert Gottlieb
#82. In the violence of overcoming, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobbing, in the excess of raptures that shatter me, I seize on the similarity between a horror and a voluptuousness that goes beyond me, between an ultimate pain and an unbearable joy!
Georges Bataille
#83. The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.
D. Elton Trueblood
#84. I see a similarity
between dogs and me.
Dogs are the true observers
walking up and down the world
thru the Molloy country.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#85. Characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any apparent similarity to real persons is not intended by the author and is either a coincidence or
David Foster Wallace
#86. I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.
Derek Jeter
#87. The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.
Lie Yukou
#88. Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#89. The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.
Hugh Grant
#90. Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.
Anthony Powell
#91. A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone.
Max Ernst
#92. In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are ... just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity.
Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.
#94. If a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.
Marcus Aurelius
#95. I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity.
James Lafferty
#96. The similarity was reassuring: the pupil was a good measure of the physical arousal that accompanies mental effort, and we could go ahead and use it to understand how the mind works.
Daniel Kahneman
#97. Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
#98. Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.
Walter J. Phillips
#99. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious.
Carl Sagan
#100. I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.
Nick Simmons
