Quotes About Commonality

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.

In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just are predisposed to laugh at and we're just kind of all putting our own spin on it.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

1. How is it possible that 6.9 billion people can all claim to want the same thing (peace, security, opportunity, prosperity, happiness, and love) and be singularly unable to get it?

If we instead back away from all that divides us, you might find common, unifying perspectives on the world. If so, watch where you step.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

It always amazes me that once you cut through the clutter, people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same things, but somehow no one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way.

Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects.

We have more in common than I thought, he mused wryly. He liked the idea that, if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support. It's always easier to become friends with someone you have something in common with. I just hope it doesn't take some socially disastrous fall before she'll consider the possibility I might be a friend.

History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another--what we have in common--that will save us.

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common." "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth [D4].

Sellele ajale - meie ajale - on omane, et kõik rahvad ja inimesed maa peal on leidnud end ühel hetkel jäägi olukorrast

We are so different, yet so much the same.

The paths may be different but the laws remain universal.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals.

Is it not true that men of good faith put aside what divides them in order to emphasize what brings them together?

I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.