Sameness Quotes

66 quotes by 58 authors

Sameness is what marketers want us to want. — Thomas M. Disch
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too… — William Osler
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It… — Frederick Lenz
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. — Jane Jacobs
When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting… — Steven Bochco
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him… — Emma Goldman
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks -… — Jon Landau
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. — Audre Lorde
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. — Zadie Smith
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. — Don Van Vliet
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook… — Mark Twain
Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness. — Lewis Black
What is perceptible to oneâ€™s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of… — Robert Musil
There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. — John Cheever
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.… — Gregory Maguire
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,… — Bell Hooks
One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed. — Haruki Murakami
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. — John Gardner
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. — Emily Giffin
The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails.… — Don DeLillo

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