Mother Angelica

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

American Educator

Saint Ambrose

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

Italian Saint

Bryan Q. Miller

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

American Writer

The Edge

For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.

Welsh Musician

Louisa Hall

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

American Novelist

Harriet Ann Jacobs

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Josh Radnor

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

American Director

Robert Burns

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

Scottish Poet

Thomas Jane

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

American Actor

Marco Pierre White

I discovered that the world of the finest restaurants was something akin to the world of the Mafia.

British Chef

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 that does not have feelings akin to their own. Anything, I think, that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else means that it increases your moral consideration to that other person. I'd love every news media owner to hear that talk at some point, it's so important. Thank you. My pleasure.

The surprising decline...

 And not only was he familiar with stoicism, but he pointed out, for all of his most important decisions, his inflection points, when he stood up for his principles and ethics, how he had used stoicism and something akin to fear-setting, which blew my mind. And he closed with two things.

Why you should define...

 That led to people like her, which, now -- she is a child who is a schoolchild. She should be at school. That's probably very akin to slavery. My daughter Grace and I have met hundreds of people like her. And there are many adults as well, literally millions around the world,

A radical plan to end...

 So from that night onwards, much akin to humanity in its adolescence, I learned the crude tools of survival. And the framework of life was very, very simple then, to be honest. You know, you just ate what you got and did whatever you were told to do.

Thoughts on humanity,...

 They see supporting gender equality something akin to the cavalry, like, "Thanks very much for bringing this to our attention, ladies, we'll take it from here." This results in a syndrome that I like to call 'premature self-congratulation.'

Why Gender Equality Is...

 But once they’ve closed in, they rely on something akin to a sixth sense to actually catch their meal. Their whiskers, or vibrissae, are composed of keratin and full of nerve fibers that run deep into the connective tissue of their face.

The lovable (and lethal)...

 when people see a feral cat on side of the road they're thinking this is akin to my cat being out there in the wild with no food exposed to the elements and they have a lot of compassion to want to help them but people don't always see

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 that less than 4% of those born into poverty will ever make it to the very top and only about one in four will ever reach the middle class for many regardless of race overcoming overcoming poverty is akin to winning the lottery

How to disrupt...

 I think the puzzle arises because of an unreflective assumption we make about value. We unwittingly assume that values like justice, beauty, kindness, are akin to scientific quantities, like length, mass and weight.

How to make hard choices...

 I mean, we share the most traits in common. Not so much these days. Death really changes people. But that -- is my grandmother's sense of humor. But the person I felt most akin to in the world

Akin

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