Quotes about difference

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“You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.”

“no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said.
"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said.
"Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.”

“She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.”

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”

“You know, you’re a little complicated after all.”
“Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.”

“Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.”

“There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.”

“Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.”

“But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.”

“I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn”

“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.”

“A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

“There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.”

“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”

“I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.”

“Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.”

“And now for something completely different…”

“Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us”

“Small changes. Big differences”

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

“Ah," she said, "to come is easy and takes hours; to go is different—and may take centuries.”

“You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.”

“What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each othereverywhere.”

“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”

“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”

“It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.”

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”

“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

“The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.”

“Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!”

“Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn)
You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)”

“On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.”

“America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.”

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

“What are you thinking?"
"Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see."
"Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.”

“The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret. mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.”

“A labyrinth is a symbolic journey… but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”

“Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind… then what is the difference between this world and a dream?”

“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

“You are different. That does not make you less.”

“I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”

“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”

“One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.”

“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.”

“What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.”

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

“I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.”

“Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”

“When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.”

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to… failure.”

“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

“What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.”

“Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me, and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.”

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”

“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”

“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.”

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”

“You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.”

“Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work”

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”

“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”

“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”

“Answer me this, did you hesitate at all or did you see the giant, go ‘Wheee!’ and run toward it?”
“She ran toward it,” Juke quipped.
“He was biting people in half.”
“I rest my case,” Curran said. “A note wouldn’t have made any difference.”

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”

“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.”

“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”

“There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference
.. Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it.”

“Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.”

“There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes”

“I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.”

“I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.”

“She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else”

“I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.”

“I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.”

“He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.”

“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”

“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”

“Maybe the new me will be different.”

“It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds… at core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”

“Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.”

“Everyone's got a different story.”

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

“This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.”

“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”