#similar

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#certain #condemns #definite #justifies #law

Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#differences #i #look #mary #much

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#anytime #bands #english #i #i can

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#bible #column #journalism #magazine #objective

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. ↗

— George Crumb

#composers #creatures #crisis #earthly #face

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#alike #definition #differences #more #much

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. ↗

— Charles Williams

#charitable #contrition #encourage #every #exhibit

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element. ↗

— Alex Winter

#also #although #american #american movies #been