All Quotes

Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
‐‐ J. Lee Thompson

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
‐‐ John Simon

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
‐‐ Jose Marti

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.
‐‐ Tom Shales

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.
‐‐ Michael Franti

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.
‐‐ Simon Van Booy

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
‐‐ Bill Flores

Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.
‐‐ Doc Hastings

Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
‐‐ Ted Nugent

Like the Bond girl, there's a stigma attached to being a 'Dhoom' girl. You have to look pretty good, and people are going to judge you.
‐‐ Katrina Kaif

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
‐‐ Thomas Hardy

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
‐‐ Susan Collins

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
‐‐ Tom Parker Bowles

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
‐‐ J. R. Moehringer

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
‐‐ Samuel Barnett

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
‐‐ Loren Eiseley

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.
‐‐ Laura Wasser

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.
‐‐ Todd Haynes

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
‐‐ Nadia Giosia

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
‐‐ Lion Feuchtwanger

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

Like the pro-slavery forces who invaded Kansas, the pro-abortion forces in Washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder; that being born is worse than death; that the unborn baby is property, not a person.
‐‐ Tim Huelskamp

Like the producers of crops, airplanes, and books, producers of natural gas provide goods to meet the size of their available market. The larger the market, the more they can produce, and the more revenue they can obtain to cover their fixed costs and invest in future development.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin