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Quotes About Commonality

We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.
~ Don Winslow
But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.
~ John McCain
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
~ Franz Wright
I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
~ Rachel McAdams
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
~ Giambattista Vico
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
~ Doris Lessing
Ammonius Saccus (a Greek philosopher, founder of the Neo-platonic school) taught that: "Christianity and Paganism, when rightly understood, differ in no essential points, but had a common origin, and are really one and the same thing." [411:3]
~ Thomas William Doane
What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.
~ Carla Hall
I believe we have a double in every country. There's something about that that is probably a commonness that we don't make note of. That maybe there's only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.
~ Richie Havens
This notion that borders wouldn't matter, that we would have commonality of interests around the world. Well, guess who got there first? The plutocrats.
~ Chrystia Freeland
The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another.
~ Orhan Pamuk
But i know a lot about the kind of men you mean. They're the same everywhere.
~ Cornelia Funke
People trudge through most days with little excitement in their lives. But our digital age provides so many opportunities to give people an authentic view of who you are or what your company strives to be, thus creating touch points of commonality that draw you into closer friendship with others.
~ Dale Carnegie
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
~ Walker Percy
There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
~ Walter Mosley
The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.
~ Wendell Berry
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
~ Harrison Ford
The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.
~ Lawrence Wright
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
~ Lemony Snicket
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I read the same authors you do.
~ Lemony Snicket
Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
~ Jean Monnet