Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.
The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.
By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.
Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.