"Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other."

-- Tom Robbins

#Differences Quotes #Common Quotes #Common Ground Quotes

“The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.”
“I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.”
“Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.”
“The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.”
“There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,”

Source : "Danah Boyd: 'People looked at me like I was an alien'" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.
“It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.”
“What is government but theft by consent?”

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