#simi

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple. ↗

— William Taylor

#growing #growing up #ideal #like #marriage

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defy #fear #how #human #hunger

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey. ↗

— Andy Zaltzman

#simile

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand. ↗

— Ulrich Walter

#appear #appearance #being #different #differently

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#dust #every #forgetting #minute #mourning

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#guess #hopeful #i #optimist #pessimist

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#pessimist #prematurely #tells #truth #who

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. ↗

— William Beveridge

#find #often #pessimist #privilege #scratch

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. ↗