Quotes with likeness

  • People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

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  • Billy Mays My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Virginia Woolf Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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