Quotes for All
With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn’t get out of the Gulf spill. There were so many similarities: the drains and the siphoning and the tubes. And also in the way the earth was hurt, the ocean was bleeding. Remember the video cams of the … Read more
In the range of music that we play – roughly 300 years’ worth-there really are more similarities than differences. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past. Ernest King
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as … Read more
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry … Read more
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. Elizabeth Hardwick
Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love. Elizabeth Gaskell
Everybody has their own way of remembering and every culture has their traditions. When you compare the similarities and differences to other cultures, you start to learn about them and appreciate them. Whether it’s the Japanese or the Africans, they all have ways of conjuring spirits and the support of those who have gone before … Read more
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I’d been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn’t know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced … Read more