Quotes About Commonality

If your hobbies are different, you can try talking about food or family. Eventually you'll find something you both agree on because everyone can relate in some way. It could be that you are able to relate to the other person's family life. Are you the eldest child or the youngest? It could be that both of you have similar experiences when it comes to family.

While we are dealing with different people, different cultures, and different standards, we are still dealing with the same whale.

Women may certainly experience wars, volatility, and state repression differently than men. But ultimately gender does not define their experience, it simply particularizes it; the women of this book have far more in common with the men around them than they do with women of wholly different countries.

Ultimately, tonight's not about the disagreements Governor Romney and I may have. It's what we have in common, beginning with our unusual names. Actually, Mitt is his middle name. I wish I could use my middle name." (Obama, Barack Hussein, D-Ill., U.S. president; Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner; New York, N.Y.; 10/18/2012.)

What binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human.

They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.

We played vintage board games, watched movies, and listened to music. We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were driven by the same goal. She got all of my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. I'd never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before.

Once we accept the common denominator of our own imperfection, once we begin to put into practice the belief that imperfection is the reality we have most in common with all other people, then the defenses that deceive us begin to fall away, and we can begin to see ourselves and others as we all really are.

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.

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead supposedly told her students, "You're absolutely unique, just like everyone else." Projects are like that. Whatever sets a project apart, it shares other characteristics with projects in its class.

The thing we have in common is our diversity.

In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.

Studies show that each common interest between people boosts the chances of a lasting relationship and also brings about a 2 percent increase in life satisfaction.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is that we're more like other people than we suppose and less like other people than we suppose.

De ins en de outs er dat kinder talk all come ter de same p'int in my min'.

However much anodyne talk there is of one's kind , a society that is racist is a society that cannot accept itself, that hates part of itself so deeply that it cannot see, does not want to see - because of its spiritual and political nullity and inanition - how much people have in common with each other.

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.