#semblance

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. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#anything #bear #because #find #guitar

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#being #bush #clear #decades #envied

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it. ↗

— Michael Medved

#anything #complain #everybody #fix #loves

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#divine #form #join #paint #semblance

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#between #found #hard #i #know

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie." ("Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.") ↗

— George Sand

#fiction #life #novels #realism #resemblance

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#feelings #good #good music #motivated #mysterious

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#before #bring #bringing #chaos #done

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#common #convinced #much #resemblance #stupid

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

#desire #mockery #real #semblance #study