Quotes About Commonality

The virus is fostering a commonality that we weren't aware of, a biological commonality, where someone else's health and behavior can really affect our own—whether they have health insurance, whether they are wearing their mask. It's a rehearsal for climate change in that we recognize that there is no escaping our predicament. There's no other place to go. We're coming to see that we're really all in the same boat.

Our similarities are different.

I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.

The true basis for friendships is a prejudice or two in common," Max liked to say.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.

What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Like, for instance, standing in the kitchen wondering what you went in there for. Everybody does it, but because there isn't—or wasn't—a word for it, everyone thinks it's something that only they do and that they are therefore more stupid than other people. It is reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common than we do not have in common.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.

Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all.

As pessoas são realmente muito parecidas em todos os lugares.

La natura umana, mia cara, è sempre più o meno la stessa, ovunque. Solo che è più difficile osservarla da vicino in una grande città, tutto qui.