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Quotes About Commonality

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
~ Richard Gere
We human beings are all fundamentally the same. We all belong to a common, broken humanity. We all have wounded, vulnerable hearts. Each one of us needs to feel appreciated and understood; we all need help.
~ Jean Vanier
As Rebeca reveals what scraps of story she does have to Luca, he starts to understand that this is the one thing all migrants have in common, this is the solidarity that exists among them, though they all come from different places and different circumstances, some urban, some rural, some middle-class, some poor, some well educated, some illiterate, Salvadoran, Honduran, Guatemalan, Mexican, Indian, each of them carries some story of suffering on top of that train and into el norte beyond.
~ Jeanine Cummins
What is he like?" asked Khadgar, his voice almost pleading. "Like everyone else, I suppose." said Moroes. "Has his druthers. Has his moods. Good days and bad. Like everybody else." "puts his pants on one leg at a time," said Khadgar, sighing. "No. He levitates into them," said Moroes.
~ Jeff Grubb
La conclusión básica que saqué de todo esto, y que no ha cambiado, es que todos los seres humanos, al margen de nuestra nacionalidad, riqueza o pobreza, tenemos necesidades, deseos y preocupaciones similares. En realidad, nunca he conocido a nadie cuya mayor necesidad no sea el amor.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
All men and all women are mostly the same, most of the time," she clarified. "Everybody knows that this is true." The other Hmong ladies all nodded in agreement.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Every human, we all have different genetic backgrounds, we all have lived separate lives. But our genomes are greater than 99 percent similar.
~ Allan Jones
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
~ Forest Whitaker
Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.
~ Arlo Guthrie
Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.
~ Michelle Dean
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
~ Stephen Fry
The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?
~ Elizabeth May
I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality.
~ Richard Paul Evans
I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing".
~ Richard Paul Evans
You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways. But even now, after an immense journey in separate directions, that tree and you still share a quarter of your genes. . . .
~ Richard Powers
The writers of the scriptures consistently affirm that we're all part of the same family. What we have in common—regardless of our tribe, language, customs, beliefs, or religion—outweighs our differences. This is why God wants "all people to be saved.
~ Rob Bell
The writers of the scriptures consistently affirm that we're all part of the same family. What we have in common—regardless of our tribe, language, customs, beliefs, or religion—outweighs our differences.
~ Rob Bell
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
very much like us in every important way and
~ Kenneth L Feder
Unlike in capitalist society where every realm of social life is based on individualism, a socialist society is a collective society where all the people work together sharing a common goal and common interests.
~ Kim Jong Il
And so the world reduces us, all three of us, to our lowest common denominator.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Families are weird. You'd think that people who live and eat and sleep in the same place would always have a lot in common. But sometimes they don't have anything in common AT ALL. You can have a brother who really likes ballet and a sister who thinks it's girlie. You could probably have Darth Vader and Mickey Mouse in the same family; they're that weird.
~ Emma Thompson
human nature is basically the same wherever you go.
~ Amanda Stevens
My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.
~ Krista Tippett