Margaret MacMillan Quotes

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.

I love feelings that are universal, things that tie every single person on this earth together. I think we all battle between what we know is right and what we feel is right every single day, and as much as that can be difficult it's absolutely human.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.