#semblance

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#deeply #look #love #many #men

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

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

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#another #our #ourselves #polite #recognition

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#make #melody #only #redundant #semblance

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#biggest #biggest mistakes #cling #closer #film

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. ↗

— Ben Harper

#away #burn #find #make #only

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

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

— Matthew Prior

#divine #form #join #paint #semblance

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