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Like Quotes

Quotes on what people like and why.

These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

Quotes by Edward Albee

You don't find anyone like Texans anywhere else in the world.

Quotes by Edward Albert

Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Quotes by Edmund S. Muskie

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the...

Quotes by Edmund White

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

Quotes by Edmund White

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

Quotes by Edmund White

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Quotes by Edmund Wilson

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.

Quotes by Edith Widder

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Quotes by Edmond About

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Quotes by Edmond de Goncourt

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Quotes by Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Quotes by Edmund Burke

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

Quotes by Edmund Hillary

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

Quotes by Edmund Husserl

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

Quotes by Edmund Husserl

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Quotes by Edmund Leach

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "Like" page?
These quotes use "like" in different ways — as comparison, as preference, and as a mathematician describing what interested him instead of computers. It's a varied, conversational collection.
Is there a quote about changing your mind over time?
Yes — one describes disliking Jane Austen in college, hating a specific novel, before eventually coming around to "good Austen." It's a relatable arc of a changing opinion.
What about quotes on confidence?
There's a memorable one about having "robust confidence" as a teenager that later became "constricted" by sensory experience in your mid-twenties — an honest look at how confidence shifts with age. If that resonates, Feel quotes covers similar emotional ground.
Is "I feel like I was born to make music" a good example of this page's tone?
Exactly — it's short, personal, and confident, which is typical of the quotes here. If you want more lines with that same sense of purpose, Know quotes is a good next stop.
How should I use these quotes?
They're great as captions for anything about personal taste, growing up, or finding your path — whether that's Always quotes for consistency or Go quotes for quotes about moving forward.

Other quotes describe a felt sense of calling, such as being drawn toward music, or confidence that shifted with age and experience. Continue to Feel Quotes or Go Quotes for related themes.