Quotes About Uniqueness

Children are not sacks of grain, to be substituted one for the other.

Not every god need be the same, he said.

Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child. Orpheus' voice made the trees weep, Heracles could kill a man by clapping him on the back. Achilles' miracle was his speed.

There is no one like you," I said, at last. He regarded me a moment, in silence. "So?" Something in the way he spoke it drained the last of my anger from me. I had minded, once. But who was I now, to begrudge such a thing? As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun.

There is no one like you" I said, at last. He regarded me a moment, in silence. "So?

When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world

Lorsque nous sommes jeunes, nous croyons être les premiers au monde à ressentir chaque sentiment.

In any event, there are many ways to examine and study the relationship between the Bible and other ancient Near Eastern texts. Polemical theology, in my estimation, is one of the more important ones. It helps to highlight the distinctiveness and uniqueness of the Hebrew worldview over against the dominant setting of the rest of the ancient Near East.

In your life you are William Wallace—who else could be? There is no other man who can replace you in your life, in the arena you've been called to. If you leave your place in the line, it will remain empty. No one else can be who you are meant to be. You are the hero in your story. Not a bit player, not an extra, but the main man.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

They knew they were like two grains of yeast in a sea of lethargic dough—two grains of salt in a vast tureen of insipid broth.

Mediocritatea este plaga civilizatiei. Dar mediocritatea il face atat de comun, incat devine iesit din comun.

There weren't so many transvestite prostitutes in Oaxaca in those days; Flor really stood out, and not only because she was tall. She was almost beautiful; what was beautiful about her truly wasn't affected by the softest-looking trace of a mustache on her upper lip, though Lupe noticed it.

You're not like anyone else, Billy - that's what's the matter with you, Donna said.

You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.

As in many things, my mother could be extremely accomplished without being in the least original or even inventive.

What but faith in the goodness and uniqueness of its essential principles could unite and sustain a country as diverse as America? What but faith could have enabled the country to survive the trials of the Revolution, the chaos and grief of a civil war—

Oh, my God! Ignatius mumbled, looking at the austere little calling card. You can't really be named Dorian Greene. Yes, isn't that wild? Dorian asked languidly. If I told you my real name, you'd never speak to me again. It's so common I could die just thinking of it. I was born on a wheat farm in Nebraska. You can take it from there.

I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.