Similitude Quotes

#1. I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

Rob Chapman

#2. The family on earth is in similitude to the family in heaven

Allen H. Barber

#3. In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

Joshua Reynolds

#4. It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

Samuel Johnson

#5. The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language ...

Edward Gibbon

#6. Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

George Ripley

#7. Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

William Blake

#8. Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Thomas Aquinas

#9. But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

John Milton

#10. Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

William Tyndale

#11. Now to enjoy the treasures of God in the similitude of God, is the most perfect blessedness God could devise. For the treasures of God are the most perfect treasures, and the manner of God is the most perfect manner.

Thomas Traherne

#12. Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#13. Every poem is shadowed by desire, but it is also shadowed by the problem of rendering desire in language. There is a place where similitude seems to break down because experience itself seems beyond compare.

Edward Hirsch

#14. The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

Andrzej Wajda

#15. Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

Walter Raleigh

#16. Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Samuel Johnson

#17. The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.

Erasmus Darwin

#18. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

George Lucas

#19. Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror,
Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer.
The truth is that you ugly ...
Not on the outside, but in the inside;
On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.

Pharoahe Monch

#20. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. My first real break was meeting my manager, Julie Gibson. She's the one that introduced me to Ford and Innovative and got me started.

Daniella Alonso

#22. After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

Nancy Friday

#23. And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

Mahmoud Abbas

#24. The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

Karl Kraus

#25. It is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

Mark Twain

#26. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

Oscar Wilde

#27. Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

Brandon Thomas

#28. We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

Djimon Hounsou

#29. Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

Michele Bachmann

#30. He could barely believe any of his new memories, but the idea that Isabelle Lightwood had been his girlfriend seemed more unbelievable than the fact that vampires were real and Simon had been one.

Cassandra Clare

#31. i have read a couple of children's book. But this book is amazing

Anitha L. Jackson

#32. My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Errol Morris