Quotes About Differences

We split up over religious differences - she worshiped money . . . and I didn't have any.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that is one is male and the other female.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

At any rate the total number of persons at the table was not enormously larger than the number of categories, meaning that nearly everyone present was reacting in an altogether different way, and in most cases doing so rather strongly, leading to a pandemonium of fainting, screaming, knife waving, malicious glaring, furious remonstration, hand-clapping delight, dismay, judicious beard stroking, etc. to say nothing of secondary interactions, as when a knife waver collided with a screamer.

Differences in opinion enrich the diversity of a nation, and ought to be cherished and respected in any free society, provided everyone remains free to disagree with one another and, most importantly, everyone remains open to rational arguments that could change your mind.

Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink—or never arise at all—and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered one another because of them.

Differences between the conduct of the multitude and the conduct of the princes do not derive from differences in their nature, that being the same in both (though if there be some superiority either way, it will be found on the side of the people); rather, they derive from differences in their respect for the laws under which they live.

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.

We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.

But for a while, it was surprisingly easy to overlook our obvious differences. And we did.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

Everyone likes different things. Not everyone's the same. Not everyone runs their mouth. Not everyone can fight.

There have always been small anti-Korea movements, and I think it's all due to cultural differences.

Gay men don't have much in common with lesbians.

The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause is the terrible education that children acquire on the street, at school, and at home.

I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.

There is fireworks before the game; there is the national anthem before the game, so that is a huge difference to how it is in Germany: like, after the warmup, you touch the ball 20 minutes later. So that is a little bit different. The league, for example, the MLS is quite a young league, actually, but it is developing.

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.

She was unsurprised to see that the war had resulted in an unprecedented drawing together of humanity. Even the Zarians had put aside their differences with the League in order to join forces against their shared enemies. What was the point of arguing amongst yourselves if the monsters in the dark were attacking?

Todo lo que vive es irrepetible. Es inconcebible que dos seres humanos, dos arbustos de rosa silvestre sean idénticos... La vida se extingue allí donde existe el empeño de borrar las diferencias y las particularidades por medio de la violencia.

It is mankind that creates the differences, she'd told me last week. That does not mean it is not all the same God.