And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
Quotes about sameness (15 Quotes)
In general there's a lot of sameness in the songs and videos today. It all runs in to one mishmash... I'm definitely of the old school. I like melodies and I like real instruments. I like to see a smiling face across from me rather than a bank of computers. I like to play with real people.
The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case, and on New England in the other, does not disprove the sameness of the two things.
I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their eyes, she has never let them down. There's a sameness, but at the same time a vitality.
The psychological effects are immense. Children understand sameness. And for reasons out of everybody's control, you've yanked that away. You've devastated their world.
There are many gods with a small g. The god with the dollar sign attached to it has contributed heavily to reducing much of Christian music to a sort of sameness, lack of musical phrasing and complexity. Much of it is very recognizable pop music phrases redone. As far as the music goes, there even seems to be a near elimination of melody in some of the present-day worship. Uniqueness has been slowly disappearing for years.
What we have been seeing these days is not quite as encouraging as what we used to believe that in the modern world it is nearly impossible to interact socially and culturally only with those who think alike. Longing for the comforting of sameness may appears providing some safety and security. It confines ourselves into divisions that blocks our minds. In the end, collectively we become unsafe and insecure.
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.