Quotes about difference

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“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

“It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.”

“No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.”

“The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.”

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.”

“Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.”

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

…"Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.”

“How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.”

“Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that
religions can cause.”

“One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.”

“Know all the Questions, but not the Answers
Look for the Different, instead of the Same
Never Walk where there's room for Running
Don't do anything that can't be a Game”

“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”

“The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.”

“We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.”

“Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”

“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”

“Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?”

“Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.”

“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”

“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”

“Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.”

“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”

“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”

“We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.”

“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”

“I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”

“No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.”

“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”

“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

“So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

“Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”

“That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.”

“Tell me what’s the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn’t know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope”

“And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.”

“There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.”

“And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”

“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

“You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?"
"It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize."
"Must be a human thing."
"Exactly.”

“Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.”

“Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt.”

“To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.”

“Stories are a different kind of true.”

“The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.”

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

“How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.”

“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”

“Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”

“How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?”

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”

“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”

“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

“I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity…”

“That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.”

“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”

“I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.”

“It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.”

“The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.”

“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”

“It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

“No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary)
But it doesn’t feel temporary. (Arik)
It never does at its onset. It’s only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)”

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts…”

“Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.”

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”

“Holy mother!"
"Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference."

-Hephaetus”

“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”

“It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.”

“There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.”

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.”

“The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”

“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”

“Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.”

“I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.”

“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”

“But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.”

“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”

“That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.”

“If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”