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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill. — Julie Burchill

If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity. — Marie Curie

The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman. — Sabine Baring-Gould

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. — Saint Augustine

Believing in the inherent good of humankind is akin to having faith. It is to believe in something that may not be readily apparent. — Charles F. Glassman

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw

Intention appears to be something akin to a tuning fork, causing the tuning forks of other things in the universe to resonate at the same frequency — Lynne McTaggart

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like. — Amy Poehler

When we kill a word, it's akin to killing off the dodo bird. Nothing can replace it, and it's impossible to know the scope of the loss." The — Beth Cato

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. — M. Night Shyamalan

Filmmaking is akin to writing on water. — Val Lewton

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. — Elie Wiesel

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness. — Ezra Taft Benson

I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast. — Tom Robbins

My base will show up in earthquakes. — Todd Akin

I don't apologize. — Todd Akin

As I said, I believe life starts at conception. — Todd Akin

For some, excavating the past isn't an adventure, it's more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. — Raquel Cepeda

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young. — Rainer Maria Rilke

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. — Todd Akin

I stand up for the things I believe in. — Todd Akin

you is akin to playing Russian roulette: both hobbies have a high chance of ending in a fatality." She — A.W. Exley

The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Oh, bless your heart," she says, which in southern is akin to 'you poor, stupid thing. — Eve Jagger

Hands up! Hands up! Everybody on the floor!" The effect was akin to three wild-eyed berserkers storming a prayer meeting. — Bryan Burrough

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless. — Todd Akin

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life. — Thomas Jane

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. — Susan Sontag

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money. — Moliere

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write. — Fatih Akin

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red — Timothy Roderick

YouTube is akin to having my own network. — Marlee Matlin

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. — Todd Akin

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel. — David Penhaligon

I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them. — Richard Engel

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps

To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. SOMETIMES — Elie Wiesel

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time. — Fatih Akin

Akin to an ocean breeze guiding waves to the shore she lingered into his thoughts. — Felix Alexander

As a champion of the Church Militant in a hostile secular society, Belloc would sometimes exhibit a siege mentality akin to the defiance of Pius IX. — Joseph Pearce

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper. — George F. Will

Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition. — Jani Allan

The territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan's tribal region. — Marisha Pessl

Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions are felt by animals that do not communicate with us? — Carl Sagan

I am deeply concerned about America. — Todd Akin

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion. — Ted Alexandro

Mindy felt a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist. — Jennifer Egan

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care. — Todd Akin

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods — Montesquieu

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music. — Fatih Akin

Darcy hadn't thought so at first, but he was beginning to suspect his wife might have something akin to opinions of her own. As — Renata McMann

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. — Maureen Dowd

quieted my mind and spread my focus to every rustle, creak, and call from the wild lands. Nature had a rhythm akin to the beating of a drum or heart, — K.J. Colt

Ya should know, when I've not got somethin' for a long while, my appetite goes somethin' akin to crazy. — Deborah M. Hathaway

Prolonging death was akin to prolonging an orgasm. The closer you could bring the victim to the finish line without crossing it, the better it — Seth Grahame-Smith

Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter — Larry Merchant

I was involved in some peaceful protests. — Todd Akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin. — Hosea Ballou

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. — Charles Baudelaire

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise. — Janine Di Giovanni

First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife. — Avinash Kaushik

I don't know the future. — Todd Akin

Her wrinkles were like slander. Her voice was akin to a beating with a stick. — Markus Zusak

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution — John Gray

Bad beliefs make bad behavior. — Warren Akin Candler

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea. — George Matthew Adams

Even if she loathes it. To do so would be akin to denying the existence of an awkward child. — Kate Morton

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision. — Todd Akin

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. — Marisha Pessl

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin. — Spencer W. Kimball

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. — Dervla Murphy

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship. — Matt Roper

The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii. — Samuel Johnson

Having our voices heard in the wilderness is akin to sharing our souls. Angelina J. Windsor — Angelina J. Windsor

Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century. — David Letterman

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide. — Todd Akin

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity - akin to torture. — Sandra Lee Dennis

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! — Moliere

Fire is next akin to smoke. — Plautus

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. — Stan Kelly-Bootle

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm. — Chang-rae Lee

In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger' ... — Helmut Lachenmann

I'm a dad and that's pretty important. — Todd Akin

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing. — Martin Rees

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order. — Albert Einstein

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master. — Todd Akin

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry. — Julianna Baggott

I don't like violence in movies, I'm not a kind of Tarantino fan. But sometimes it's necessary. — Fatih Akin

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat - chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange. — Don Roff

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again. — William Wetmore Story

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time. — Josh Radnor

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. — Julia Leigh

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. — Algernon Blackwood

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery. — Robert N. Lee

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. — Todd Akin

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West. — Evan Osnos