Similarity Quotes

Similarity Quote of the day

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.

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.

When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

...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.

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.

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

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.

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else

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.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

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.

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.

Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world.

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.

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.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

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.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

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.

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

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.

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.

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

War and marketing have many similarities.

I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.

Resonance is a physical process through which similarities are highlighted.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

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.