Quotes of: Sameness Keyword

Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person covers them both. We find it so natural because we are certain that in the same situation we should b...

General Psychological Theory

I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?”…”Despair,” said Finney. “They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, slept in the same beds, did the same back-b...

A Rule Against Murder

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the sam...

The Mill on the Floss

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is complete...

My Sister's Keeper

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally...

Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

Should I go up one flight of stairs and then come back down, or should I go down one flight of stairs and then come back up? Same destination, same distance, same amount of work, but two different paths. Who knows, I might find love on one path. Prob...

The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

I had a dream about you. You were a wholesale hole salesman, and I was a wholesale half salesman. I told you a half a hole is the same as a whole hole, and you said the pricing isn’t the same. I agreed and I disagreed, and I tried telling you this,...

We Had A #Dream About You

So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts stop and feet slip, where we wonder if there is a hidden road that leads somewhere. We believe and we doubt. Believing...

John Ortberg

...And Brick and I say in unison, “As long as I’m here.” This is a guy thing. You never want to acknowledge that you and another guy had exactly the same thought in exactly the same words and that you spoke them aloud . . .at exactly the same t...

Alan Eisenstock

No one can see your visions and dreams as clearly as you can. Purpose is the key to creation manifested through vision.

Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit

Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Vol. 2

A brick could be substituted in for Kansas as a US state, because they’re roughly the same shape, they have the same topography, and I just found Topeka without the aid of a microscope.


Brick and Blanket

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Blood Promise

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Alan Vega

And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment.

All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.

Juliet, Naked

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Killosophy

Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory. Again and again, grief holds the same few things.

Sea of Hooks

If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they'll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.

The Spider's House

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love