Different But Alike Quotes

#1. You and I are so much alike, Isa; different, but alike. You threw yourself into your artwork to help cope with your abusive situation and to let your secret desires out, and I embraced it to forget about my parents' death.

Ella Dominguez

#2. We're like lightning and thunder, inherently different but alike enough to share the same sky.

Krista Ritchie

#3. Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.

Sheri L. Dew

#4. Identical twins
are no different
from everyone else,
except we look and
sometimes sound
exactly alike.

Kwame Alexander

#5. The individuals in great dyads will be very different from each other and very much alike. These simultaneous extremes generate the deep rapport and energizing friction that define a creative pair.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#6. Some news organizations made a mistake with the iPad in saying, 'Oh, it's a big iPhone.' The fact is the way people use the tablet versus the iPhone is so completely different which is why our iPhone and iPad apps look nothing alike.

Vivian Schiller

#7. From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

Jello Biafra

#8. I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

William Banting

#9. Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

Gottfried Leibniz

#10. Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

Richard Rohr

#11. No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

Gene Roddenberry

#13. The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

Jane Addams

#14. I hunt chickens , men hunt me,All the chickens are just alike,and all the men are just alike.and in consequence, i am little bored,but if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

Leo Buscaglia

#16. Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

Mae West

#17. Why can't she see that no two people
are exactly alike? Our hearts and minds
are all different.
Only our dreams share
this same desperate need
to rise
and soar...

Margarita Engle

#18. Sad really that people would rather focus on what makes them different than on what makes them the same ... compassion, hope." He glanced from Kody to Nick. "Love. For all the differences between us, we're more alike than anyone wants to admit." And

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

John Geddes

#20. We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Blaise Pascal

#21. Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows

E. E. Cummings

#22. The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Anne Lamott

#23. What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

Patricia Polacco

#24. That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.

Leonard Bloomfield

#25. Being composed and being off-guard may look alike, but they are quite different. You should first test this out for yourself.

Issai Chozanshi

#26. Sweeping generalizations are easy, but we are more alike than we are different. Our focus and interests may vary, or not, but to dismiss something as less relevant is a missed opportunity.

Deborah Stanish

#27. Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

Lord Dunsany

#28. I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them ... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

Elizabeth Strout

#29. If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Michel De Montaigne

#30. We're all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

Larry Kramer

#31. The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#32. Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

Ellsworth Huntington

#33. From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

Nancy Mairs

#34. As a black woman trying different products and figuring out what works best for me, the one thing that I realized is that hair brands lump us together as having 'black hair,' but all black hair is not alike.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#35. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Albert Einstein

#36. They hate what's different because they're all so fucking alike.

Anthony Breznican

#37. Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.

Diane Arbus

#38. Men are different; sheep are all alike.

Raheel Farooq

#39. Snowflakes fascinate me ... Millions of them falling gently to the ground ... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others ... The last of the rugged individualists!

Charles M. Schulz

#40. Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord - "
"They won't," Tyrion said. "They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.

George R R Martin

#41. She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#42. In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#43. Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#44. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.

Robin Jones Gunn

#45. Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

Benjamin Tucker

#46. The young swans as big as their parents now, but still grey and it looks peculiar, like two different species swimming in a line, alike in all their movements, and no doubt they think they are the same, while everyone can see that they are not.

Per Petterson

#47. Sometimes we only see how people are different from us, but if you look hard enough, you can see how much we're all alike.

Princess Jasmine

#48. We are not different nor alike
But each strange in his leather body
sealed in skin and reaching out clumsy hands
and loving is an act
that cannot outlive
the open hand
the open eye
the door in the chest standing open.

Marge Piercy

#49. Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

Lee Remick

#50. Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

Robert Gottlieb

#51. It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#52. There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#53. Amazing how different one woman could feel from another. Why the hell did they all want to be alike?

Cherise Sinclair

#54. You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it.

Xenobia Bailey

#55. I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

Bernhard Langer

#56. See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Orson Welles

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

Salman Rushdie

#58. No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#59. We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.

Brian Viglione

#60. All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

Ken Kesey

#61. Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don't give a damn if nobody understands us ... That's what makes us different from everybody else. They're all worried about whether the people around them understand them. But not me, and not Watanabe. We just don't give a damn. Self and others are separate.

Haruki Murakami

#62. No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Salman Rushdie

#64. Men liked to claim how different they were, yet they were all so alike.

Cornelia Funke

#65. There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

Mark Van Doren

#66. Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

Sherwood Smith

#67. I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

Phil Daniels

#68. When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.

M. Russell Ballard

#69. Human beings are more alike than different - damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn't have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world." Lilith

Octavia E. Butler

#70. He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

Stuart McLean

#71. I don't believe in that - the husband and wife having to be just alike. I think it's better if they kind of offset each other. Like if they have these different dimensions they can bring to each other.

Tim Tharp

#72. All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

Lana Turner

#73. They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

James Lipton

#74. How can we be so different and feel so much alike?

Ika Natassa

#75. To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.

Jeffrey Fry

#76. The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren't involved. Only the skin color of the dead is different.

Jonathan Carroll

#77. They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.

Deanna Raybourn

#78. The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so ...

Margaret Mead

#79. None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.

Hannah Arendt

#80. Not everyone in the world is alike. And some of us are a lot more different than others. Some of us were born like this, some of us were changed. But no matter how this happened to you, if you are here it is because this is your destiny. It was chosen for you.

C.C. Hunter

#81. It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Maya Angelou

#82. By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

Robert Green Ingersoll

#83. She is the Sun and I am the northern star
Different stars made for one purpose
So much alike yet never able to be present at the same time
Missing each other... by only a days time
No I will never forget this sight. Yes her beauty will surely haunt my dreams
~ Cal

A. Hart

#84. I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

Ellen Klages

#85. An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#86. Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.

Luisa Casati

#87. Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane

C.J. Cherryh

#88. All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

Ogden Nash