Quotes About Commonality

What is there in common between life and chemistry; between good and evil and electrical charges, between a collection of cells and the consciousness of a caress?

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

All people are alike when they sleep." Jeremiah Lopper paraphrasing Aristotle (p. 146)

As a representative institution, the U.S. Congress embodies the temper of its time. When the nation is polarized and civic commonality dwindles, Congress reflects that image back to the American people.

The simple truth is this: Most humans are very much alike. The simple and obvious truth is that there are very few variables to what a person might do, think, fear or desire in any given situation.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same."

what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

Being healthy consists of having the same disease as everyone else.

Ever man should have the courage to stand up and face the enemy,' I said, 'cause ever person that looks like a enemy on the outside ain't necessarily one on the inside. We all has more in common that we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.

We be of one blood, ye and I

We be of one blood, thou and I—

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

Mogor had been right. The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

A multitude of particular facts cannot be seen separately, without at last discovering the common tie which connects them.

Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.