An hour crept by. I think it was an hour. I hardly recognized it. Bearing no resemblance to any of the numerous other hours of my acquaintance, I hardly recognized a single second of it.
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
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.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
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.
Louis: But the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues, and each of those statues resembled her face.
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
The shot [in the 1956 film ] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.
It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
The car drives through, stops while the man closes and fastens the prickly gate behind it. The bell shuts off; the stillness is deafening by contrast. The car goes on until the outline of a house suddenly uptilts the searching headlight-beams, log-bu...
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
