Quotes About Uniqueness

Cooperation was possible; he'd seen it. Every individual was unique—and could grow.

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

It wasn't about a women's weight, it was about who they were, if that brightness shone through their eyes and skin and hair. Ricco found beauty in art. Women were a form of art. All shapes and sizes. All body types.

Finish it Sonia. For You, I'm perfect for you, you keep leaving that part out. I'm not a perfect man, I'm not 'right'. I'm right for you and I'm perfect for you. No One Else.

Everyone is special in there own way, Mitya, she said softly

He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts.

I believe that everyone in the world is crazy except you and me. And even you're a little bit strange.

I think it's funny that people all look so different on the outside, but inside out hears, our brains all look the same. I can't help thinking it should be the other way round, as it's the thoughts inside our heads that make us unique.

Gathered together in this fashion, Jerry could see that the Whitstables possessed certain common physical characteristics, including wayward teeth, large earlobes, and the sort of stress-related blotchiness usually found in cornered jellyfish.

I would hate to think of myself as normal. What's the point of working your whole life if you end up having to do what other people want?

Indeed, Ockham stated that it cannot be strictly proved that god, if defined as a being who possesses the qualities of supremacy, perfection, uniqueness, and infinity, exists at all. However, if one intends to identify a first cause of the existence of the world, one may choose to call that "god" even if one does not know the precise nature of the first cause.

Nonetheless, there are in all periods people who feel themselves in some fashion to be *apart*.

there comes a point where you'll find something out, where you'll see something, or where something will suddenly come together, and you'll realize that you know something that no one else in the world knows yet. Just you. No one else. You realize that all the value you have is in that one thing, and you're only going to have it for a short time until you tell someone else, but for that time you are more alive than you'll ever be.

Minty? Your name is Minty Fresh?

What if he isn't really the last of his kind, but the first of ours?

I will never be like ordinary people. If I must be different, then let me keep that which sets me apart.

his eyes were different colors. One was blue and one was black.

That is the difference between you and me. You had only one story to tell.' She stops and grins once more. 'I have millions.

Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just like him. He added, Because if the poor have to wait for a lot of people like Paul to come along before they get good health care, they are totally fucked.

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals.

That man is … odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon

Jedes Geschöpf der Welt ist uns gleichsam ein Buch und Gemälde und Spiegel. (Every creature of the world is to us at once a book and painting and mirror.)

È, o è stato, per molti aspetti, un grande uomo. Ma proprio per questo è strano. Sono solo gli uomini piccoli che sembrano normali.