#resemble

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. ↗

— Voltaire

#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#go #her #how #i #knows

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#choice #huge #increasingly #intelligent #jail

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #his #honor #land #most

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#copper #farther #get #going #improve

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. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american president #commander #course #grasp #helm

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ↗

— David Mamet

#american #american football #ball #east #football