Resemblance Quotes

“If we want to decode our community's deep-seated fibers, we must go and see the world and explore the significant distinctions and resemblances. To find out about the inner self and understand our internal murmurings, we must learn to reach out to the others. ("On a casual day without a tie")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie."

("Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.")”
― George Sand, Metella

“If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“How was your journey?" he asked.
"You don't have to make small talk with me," she said. "I don't like it, and I'm not very good at it."
They paused at the shade of portico, beside a sweet-scented bower of roses. Casually Lord St. Vincent leaned a shoulder against a cream-painted column. A lazy smile curved his lips as he looked down at her. "Didn't Lady Berwick teach you?"
"She tried. But I hate trying to make conversation about weather. Who cares what the temperature is? I want to talk about things like... like..."
"Yes?" he prompted as she hesitated.
"Darwin. Women's suffrage. Workhouses, war, why we're alive, if you believe in séances or spirits, if music has ever made you cry, or what vegetable you hate most..." Pandora shrugged and glanced up at him, expecting the familiar frozen expression of a man who was about to run for his life. Instead she found herself caught by his arrested stare, while the silence seemed to wrap around them.
After a moment, Lord St. Vincent said softly, "Carrots."
Bemused, Pandora tried to gather her wits. "That's the vegetable you hate most? Do you mean cooked ones?"
"Any kind of carrots."
"Out of all vegetables?" At his nod, she persisted, "What about carrot cake?"
"No."
But it's cake."
A smile flickered across his lips. "Still carrots."
Pandora wanted to argue the superiority of carrots over some truly atrocious vegetable, such as Brussels sprouts, but heir conversation was interrupted by a silky masculine voice.
"Ah, there you are. I've been sent out to fetch you."
Pandora shrank back as she saw a tall msn approach in a graceful stride. She knew instantly that he must be Lord Sy. Vincent's father- the resemblance was striking. His complexion was tanned and lightly time-weathered, with laugh-lines at the outer corners of his blue eyes. He had a full head of tawny-golden hair, handsomely silvered at the sides and temples. Having heard of his reputation as a former libertine, Pandora had expected an aging roué with coarse features and a leer... not this rather gorgeous specimen who wore his formidable presence like an elegant suit of clothes.
"My son, what can you be thinking, keeping this enchanting creature out in the heat of midday?”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I thought we had to act the same on the outside to be similar, but we don’t. What matters is what we’re like inside. And just because we don’t like the same things doesn’t mean we’re not similar.”
― Aisha Bushby, A Pocketful of Stars

“She is not the child that mirrors me, and yet when you put us side by side, there are definite similarities. It's not in the shape of the mouth but the set of it, the sheer determination that silvers our eyes.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“My shadow said to me, ‘what if I told you that I am your soul.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Distance sometimes leaves us thinking that someone looks like himself or herself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whereas sense and memory are conversant only about individuals, our earliest experiences imply, or perhaps generate, the notion of a species, including all those individuals which have the most obvious and universal resemblance.”
― George Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric

“He knew whom she saw---whom everybody saw---when they looked in his face. Why on earth do I care about you? He couldn't help that he looked so much like his father, and he knew she was thinking about Daddy. But he still felt the harsh sting of her pain, and he always wondered...he always wondered if she faulted him a little bit for it.”
― Allie Ray, Children of Promise

“Byl nesmírně vnímavý, a to pro něho znamenalo problémy. Chápal svět úplně jinak. Nedokázal v něm normálně fungovat. Všechny ty zákonitosti, nařízení, pravidla. Možná proto si mě získal. Jako bych se viděl v zrcadle, tak mi byl ve své podstatě podobný. Můj bože, ten byl ale nešťastný!”
― S.G.

“It was terrible the way resemblances ran wild through the things of the world, the way one place or time mimicked another, making you feel that you were going in circles, going nowhere at all. I looked forward to becoming my own ghost, which I had been told would resemble nothing and would look uniquely like itself.”
― Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

“The light played over her dark golden hair, bringing out shades of wheat and honey in the shining filaments. She was an uncommonly pretty woman, her delicate, decisive features a feminine echo of Nick's strong face.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Worth Any Price

“It is a privilege to have been made in God’s image, and to be a resemblance of Him.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Poetry is a satisfying of the desire for resemblance. As the mere satisfying of a desire, it is pleasurable. But poetry if it did nothing but satisfy a desire would not rise above the level of many lesser things. Its singularity is that in the act of satisfying the desire for resemblance it touches the sense of reality, it enhances the sense of reality, heightens it, intensifies it.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“It is a privilege to have been made in God’s image and to be a resemblance of Him.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“It is evident, that though the mind receives a considerable pleasure from the discovery of resemblance, no pleasure is received when the resemblance is of such a nature as is familiar to every body. ... What gives the principal delight to the imagination, is the exhibition of a strong likeness, which escapes the notice of the generality of people.”
― George Campbell, The Philosophy of Rhetoric

“Our training grounds rarely resemble the place God is taking us to in life. What you need to settle in your heart is this—your experiences today will help you with your future.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Failing to recognize someone sometimes makes us think that they look like themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Having known the duke her entire life, Merritt had never thought about his looks. She was aware he was handsome, of course, but she'd never paid particular attention to his individual features or spent any time at all dwelling on them. To her he had always simply been Uncle Sebastian.
But in this moment, as she stared up at him, she was struck by the distinctive pale blue of his eyes, like a winter sky, like moonlight... like Keir's.
Shaken, she stared up at this complex, powerful man, who was so familiar... and yet so full of mystery.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“The light from a single lamp gilded both men's profiles, making it impossible to ignore their likeness, even with the thick beard covering the lower half of Keir's face. The long, straight noses, the high-planed cheekbones, the way their hairlines were shaped in a very slight widow's peak. Even the hand Kingston laid across Keir's forehead, the fingers long and blunt-tipped... that was familiar, too.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“Lady Beatrice's left eye stares boldly at me through the opening of a mask that she holds up to her face. Her light hair is piled half onto the top of her head, the other half arrayed around her shoulders. An unusual ring adorns her right hand, and I zoom in on the portrait to see it more clearly. The ring is a diamond in the shape of an icicle.
I return to the Wikipedia article and click on the next image--a painting of Beatrice on the night of her hanging. She is older in this painting, but her blond hair is styled the same as in the earlier, youthful portrait. The painting depicts screaming townspeople snatching at the skirts of her heavy gown as she attempts to flee. Leaves and flowers are woven through her hair, and a long garland drapes across her dress, giving her the appearance of nature itself.
I look closer. There is no doubt that I resemble her; our blue eyes, high cheekbones, and ivory skin are all a match. We could be sisters from different eras.”
― Alexandra Monir, Suspicion

“People said that dogs tended to resemble their owners, and considering that my little wiener dog was a super cute brown girl with stubby legs, great fashion sense, and a tendency toward plumpness, I had to agree.”
― Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo

“It is a privilege to have been made in God’s image and to resemble Him.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration