Top 44 We Are More Alike Than Different Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane
C.J. Cherryh
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
Ogden Nash
#13. 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
#14. To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.
Jeffrey Fry
#15. How can we be so different and feel so much alike?
Ika Natassa
#16. 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
#17. All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.
Lana Turner
#18. 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
#19. The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.
Anne Lamott
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Men liked to claim how different they were, yet they were all so alike.
Cornelia Funke
#27. The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike.
Salman Rushdie
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.
Brian Viglione
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.
Bernhard Langer
#36. 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
#37. Amazing how different one woman could feel from another. Why the hell did they all want to be alike?
Cherise Sinclair
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
Lee Remick
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
Salman Rushdie
