Quotes About Uniqueness

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

Dr. George Sheehan once said, "We are each an experiment of one.

All birds are perhaps a little wrong, because an absolute once-and-for-all formula for a bird has never been found, just as all novels are bad because the correct formula for a novel has never been found.

One Eye slid down from the tree, and Three Eyes climbed up. But Three Eyes

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by "a world of enemies," "one against all," that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.

For he loves each one of us," she said to herself, "as though there were only one to love.

Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

but every home is its own island with its own secrets.

Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy.

Why do we insist that there can only be one "us," one life that makes us up in our entirety? Why can't we have more than one identity? And why do we have to destroy one life in order to create another? We claim to long for the "well rounded," the Renaissance man or woman inside all of us, yet our only variety is cosmetic. In reality we do all we can to smother that spirit out, to make us conform, to define us as one thing and one thing only.

Me and Ashley feel like we're totally different.

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

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Lata Mangeshkar is Lata Mangeshkar. Nobody can ever touch her.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I know I am not for everyone, but I also know my story has touched and inspired many.

America is a hardheaded place. It's tough to be different here.

We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.

You can't compare one tournament with another.

All bodies can't be same, my body will react differently tours.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.