Top 272 Alike Quotes

Here we have the best Alike Quotes from famous authors such as Hesiod, Lyman Trumbull, Petrarch, Michael Shellenberger, Friedrich Nietzsche. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men ali
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Lyman Trumbull
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Petrarch
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleaguesRepublican and Democrat alike – were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

Cedric Richmond
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H Lapham
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

Considering the great benefits of broadband connectivity to individuals and businesses alike, it is crucial for developing countries to help build out broadband infrastructure.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.

Billie Holiday
All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they’ll ever know that they sound alike.

Connie Smith
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it’s baffling.

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

Lee Remick
I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other’s work instead of being a hindrance.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

Jim McKay
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Americans of our own time – minority and majority Americans alike – need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

I really do not have a favorite amongst Trump surrogates. They all look the same to me. They really all sound eerily alike.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Kenko Yoshida
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

While President Obama raised the hopes of Americans and Cubans alike with a forward-looking opening in diplomatic, commercial and people-to-people ties, President Trump is turning back the clock to a tragically failed Cold War mindset by reimposing restrictions on those activities.

Twilightpassed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

I’ve always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the other. I think men and women alike would benefit from men having a more fluid idea of what being a man is.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

Clean energy provides a unique opportunity in rural and urban communities alike by training Oregonians with new skills for projects that must be built in our communities and can’t be outsourced.

Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

Anders Zorn
If, in our haste to ‘progress,’ the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He’s a lawyer, my father’s a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them… whether that’s in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we’re kind of more alike than we are different.

I’ve heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that’s actually delaying the development of literacy.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Death‘s a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

No day is alike, nor should it be.

Donna Edwards
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

William Banting
Those who claim to be in the know say Baros is nothing out of the ordinary as Maldivian islands go – that Reethi Ra is far more fashionable, Soneva Fushi more eco-compliant. Truth to tell, they all look pretty much alike from a distance.

And one of the things I’ve tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians – reporters and members of the general public alike – a closer look at how their government works.

I was just a beginner, and she and I were not in any manner alike, but we got along very well because I was in awe of going to school with Elizabeth Taylor.

George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

Aaron McGruder
One’s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

Thomas Arnold
One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you’re on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it’s running away.

I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Just saying ‘I want this and I want that’ doesn’t do it. My boys share and share alike in the income that the organization brings in, so that teaches them the lesson: If you work, you can earn some money. That’s how life is; it’s the American way.

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

John Amery
Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.

I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled on Italian art: my slates were covered from end to end with portraits of Savonarola, Fra Angelico, and Wild Bill and Sitting Bull; I knew all equally well and admired them about alike.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan’s very human characters help us do that.

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

Gottfried Leibniz
Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we’re a similar build – that was a joke, by the way.

Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I’ve ever worked with.

We are all alike, on the inside.

You can’t imitate; all our faces are constructed differently… and the vocal cords; otherwise, we’d all sound alike. I don’t think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

I’ve loved every minute playing for Arsenal, and I hope I have left my mark on the club and fans alike.

It’s good to remind intelligence producers and consumers alike about the need to ‘warn of emerging conditions, trends, threats and opportunities‘ and the potential for discontinuities.

Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We’re a lot alike. I’m black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I’m more relatable.

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She was intensely reserved and private, and seldom showed what she was feeling.

No day is alike – I do many other things, and I’m very active in the environmental movement.

Jostein Gaarder
Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Susan Griffin
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

You know, we don’t look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

That’s why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there’s no in-between. So it’s kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love’s fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

I’m an independent, straight in the middle. I’ve donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

Jon Heder
Clifton and I don’t even look alike. He smokes and drinks, and I do neither. He’s a big fat guy, and if it weren’t for me, no one would know who he is.

Andy Kaufman
Rap is like any other genre: There are the people who are very creative with it and do remarkable things… and then there’s that whole quadrant that sounds alike. There’s great stuff that’s taken the genre to a new level over the years, and ‘Regulate‘ was one of those tracks that was kind of a landmark.

In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.

If all the people of this country, black and white alike, are to enter fully into our national story, as I desperately hope they will, they must do so on terms of reciprocity.

Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.

I think patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF.

We’re not all supposed to think alike.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike – which is what many are talking about now.

I’m really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I’m having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it’s quite nice to be able to play something very different.

That’s one reason I really love ‘Supergirl.’ It’s a great show for people to watch with their children – sons and daughters alike. It features strong female characters which is always something to appreciate.

Gigi is an extrovert. He’s always smiling and there are no airs and graces about him. He’s always a role model for his team-mates, both young and old alike.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don’t. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don’t speak in dialogue. Their lives don’t unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole – women and men alike – than the one which involves women as central players.

Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human – which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race’s distinguishing characteristics – children must be surrounded by animal imagery.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that’s least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

I guess there’s only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.

Disasters happen. Nature refuses to cooperate with the best-laid plans of kings and lesser men alike.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

I know thousands of German‘s who are totally different from me, so we’re not alike, we’re not the same.

Bernhard Langer
Marble is not alike in all countries.

Asceticism doesn’t lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn’t lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.

I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.

Everyone’s unique; no one’s ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He’s capable of making a room happy with a few words.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Veterans and serving personnel alike have been hounded by processes often not motivated by the pursuit of justice.

Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world’s most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

I think people are more alike than they are different, especially in high school. No matter what clique you belong to, everybody’s trying to get approval and trying to fit in.

People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Ellerbee
The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

George Dennison Prentice
Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

If Republicans and Democrats alike truly believe DACA should stay and be a permanent part of immigration reform, then they should use their elected power to make it so.

Cloud Atlas‘ is but one of a long list of titles deemed unfilmable, by author and movie moguls alike, until it was, well, filmed.

The establishment wonders why we can’t get more of the black vote. It’s because it’s not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don’t think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn’t evil because it’s liberal but because it’s lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren’t like them, where, again and again, you realize we’re all generally alike.

It’s the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

I’m dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That’s the challenge and that’s what it’s all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

If someone saysgrunge‘ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

Not all Millennials think alike. A demographic is not a psychographic.

Necessarily, I’m always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

David Ives
I feel a really strong sense of responsibility to encourage young women in my industry to embrace strength and vulnerability alike, and to develop their own ideas as courageously as possible.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

It’s funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I’ve been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It’s just ’cause we’re all named Emma. None of us look alike.

To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: ‘They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!’ We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Shirley Williams
Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop – there’s no difference, no ambience, no real resonance.

It’s a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I’ve never had any trouble identifying with the character that I’m playing.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: ‘Why isn’t my government doing the same?’

Pete Sessions
If you watch ‘American Idol,’ and you close your eyes, you don’t know who’s singing because they all sound exactly alike.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Pericles
A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, ‘Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.’

As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They’re just different, like your kids, even if they look alike.

They change. They’re different. There are no two alike, that’s the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it’s important.

Janet Suzman
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Cryptocurrencies are not evil and are not for money launderers and scammers. They are for entrepreneurs, technologists, change-the-world dreamers, and anyone who believes they can (and will) enable new business models, new types of organizations, and new ways to service consumers and businesses alike.

I received endorsements from Tea Party to moderates alike. And I think that’s unique, and that’s something I’m proud of.

Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they’re both on fire – they’re exactly alike.

Dave Attell
I think me and Mr. Dolph Lundgren look kind of alike.

I agree that it’s absurd to call a category of music ‘female-fronted metal,’ because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don’t sound anything alike.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord’s correction.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

David Mallet
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

John Donne
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Every one of them is different. In fact, brains are like faces in that no two are ever alike.

It’s so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It’s like, ‘You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?’ It just proves how much people are alike.

Me and my mom are just alike in every type of way. I talk to my mom about everything.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn’t want to be.

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you’ll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don’t have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.

Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

At the end of the day, when I hang up my boots for the last time, I hope I have the respect from the other wrestlers and fans alike who enjoyed my matches and thought that I was one of the best.

As a black woman trying different products and figuring out what works best for me, the one thing that I realized is that hair brands lump us together as having ‘black hair,’ but all black hair is not alike.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don’t look alike. Nobody every told me, ‘Good morning, Mr. President.’ We don’t all look alike.

Consumers and businesses alike value their ability to keep a phone number when changing providers or relocating. This concept is called ‘number portability.’

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn
Considering the great benefits broadband connectivity can bring to individuals and businesses alike, it is crucial for developing countries – and underserved communities in developed countries – to help build out broadband infrastructure in an affordable manner.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

Dale Earnhardt
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Anthony Collins
I think we’re all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

Jane Hamilton
You can’t have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make them say, ‘That sounds like Rakim.’

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr
Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans – but as mothers, I think we’re pretty much alike!

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!

After ‘Somewhere’ came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they’d be like, ‘Oh, wow – are you Elle Fanning?’ Before ‘Somewhere,’ they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I’d say, ‘No, I’m her younger sister.’

Michu and Van Persie are similar. They look alike. They are both tall, left-footed players. They are not fast, but they know when to make the runs.

Noah walked with God; he didn’t only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn’t melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Charles Studd
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.

Denis Kearney
There’s a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you’re going to see parts of your story in it. I don’t know which parts, but we all overlap. We’re all very much alike.

I had to convince the investor that Scotland and Montana look completely alike. He couldnt believe it. But they actually do. I defy anybody to tell when were in Montana and when were in Scotland.

Angus Macfadyen
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won’t be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you – unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.

Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect – they’re all empty.

We have to start creating more material that gives a platform for people of colour, for women, for old people and young people alike to be able to showcase their talent. It’s much bigger than a black or white thing.

When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself – because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.

Cindy Gallop
In ‘Hardflip,’ you have a relationship where the father and son haven‘t seen each other in 18 years, but they find they’re very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It’s a wonderful story of how you can’t get away from how similar you and your children are.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

I wanted to create a line for women and men alike that would encourage them to embrace the harmony and divine balance of sensuality and spirituality within all of us. Forplai is an opportunity to not only smell good and feel good, but to also take time to connect with the heavens above and the god in you.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.

Music can provide a much-needed break from life’s harsh moments, but Eddy Current Suppression Ring has no interest in creating a sonic fire escape for the distraught. Instead, the band embraces the real world, wrapping its arms around the beautiful and the ugly alike.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Lajos Egri
For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

Norbert Wiener
My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Carlos Mesa
We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Marc Bloch
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Bernard Meltzer
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

Theodore Dalrymple
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Richard Courant
Everyone in the gay community doesn’t think alike.

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

David Augsburger
Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don’t think so. I’m interested in class warfare because I think it’s real.

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike – and business owners. It’s time we did something about it. And public financing of elections should be the first step.

Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup’s new product and its market.

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don’t look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

‘Hudugaru’ is a remake of the Tamil film ‘Nadodigal.’ The film is about what happens when relationships between friends or lovers is taken casually. The film will appeal to youngsters and families alike.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it’s the same thing.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Epicurus
Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves.

Putting women’s traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It’s the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

I’ve always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

Humans can be cruel – kids and adults alike. That doesn’t mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

That’s what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It’s an exciting life.

There’s no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if ‘Man V Food’ is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose ‘Man V Food Nation’ is the legacy.

Our first thought growing up was that we want to be together always so we didn’t want to play the same position. You see a lot of twins play the same position because they are so alike. That was a big thing for us that we taught ourselves, and luckily it ended up paying off.

While men and women alike are liberated by the balance that work flexibility affords, women appear to derive greater value from it.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

On top of the highly variable necessary attributes to perform in each sport, human beings are like snowflakes; no two are alike.

The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all – Communists and non-Communists alike – want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.

It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they’re basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put quality into a product, then have it validated, you have huge credibility.

Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear – when you are the hammer, strike.

If you’re interested in a ‘Teen Vogue‘ internship, take note: it’s not all fun and games! Working at a magazine requires a ton of energy and endurance from its interns and editors alike.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Madame de Stael
And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.’ And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

Walking the streets of San Francisco can be a frightening, demoralizing, even an unhealthy experience for residents and tourists alike.

We need to learn… how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war’s indefinite continuance.

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders – those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay ‘transactional’ leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye