Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood
For their drink, they draw a liquor from barley or other grain; and ferment the same, so as to make it resemble wine.
Germanicus
This won't resemble anything that is in Hilliard now.
Bill Uttley
My motto is this: The way you live in a house and the way you sell a house are totally different. If I were to put my house on the market, it wouldn't resemble where I live now. You want it to look like a model home.
Donna Freeman
Everything you'd find in a floral arrangement, we have something to resemble it in fruit.
Tiffany Moulton
Women resemble men much more so than they did in the 50s. While we are bigger overall, the waist has grown more in proportion. During this period, the waist-hip ratio has gone from 0.7 to more than 0.8. Modern women are much straighter now.
Jeni Bougourd
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
Claud Cockburn
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner
I'm a fan of the opera and I was in there looking around, and I saw this beautiful and colorful ceramic cookie jar, made to resemble an opera singer. I bought it on the spot. I think I paid about $125 for it.
Billy Dee Williams
Those are crucial minutes. We wanted to get a good start because we didn't want this game to resemble the Milwaukee game.
Alando Tucker
No one has tasted them. They resemble the La-Mian noodle, a traditional Chinese noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.
Lu Houyuan
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Rene Magritte
I may never have experienced a centaur, but by imagining one, I know that I can also imagine others that resemble this one and yet are different.
Leo Strauss
He's flushed with drink. And if the weather keeps up like this, by the end of the round he will resemble a ripe tomato.
Terry Wogan
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
Francois Mauriac
If you're slipping down that slippery slope, polygamous marriages should come before gay marriage because they more closely resemble traditional marriage.
Brian Barnard
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
Julian Huxley
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
Charles Simeon
I am kind of upset about Miss America being held in Las Vegas. I just don't want the image of Las Vegas to resemble the pageant, because Miss America is very classy and I don't want to see that image of the pageant go.
Debbie Miles
He had a lot of energy and was involved in a lot of plays. For me, he started to resemble the Dominic we've known. He's been putting too much pressure on himself. For the first time, he really looked dangerous again.
Tim O'sullivan
Obsessions are repetitive thoughts which resemble worry and are accompanied by anxiety. Compulsions are behavioral acts designed to eliminate the obsessions. And sometimes if your mind becomes so cluttered with obsessions, and your day so filled with compulsions, life as you know becomes completely taken over by anxiety and counterproductive rituals.
Abby Aronowitz
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
Susan Griffin
(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.
Matthew Tindal
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
Peg Bracken
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White
Alcoa's earnings appears to resemble a biblical scripture because it can be interpreted in many ways.
Sanford Bernstein
I've known Paris and worked with her, and the kind of person that was described on the stand this afternoon doesn't resemble the woman that I know.
Elliot Mintz
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas
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