Quotes with resembling

  • Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.

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  • James I of England A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Sher Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
    On War (1832) Ch. 11
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Jane Porter The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Aristotle The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Italo Calvino Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Blaise Pascal What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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