Quotes About Differences

A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

I'm asking myself, 'What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?' Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Prime ministers with full majority have behaved differently from each other. Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader who ruled by consensus while Indira Gandhi was considered more unilateral in her approach.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

There has always been this feeling among the religious public of, 'Why can't we all unite?' Shas, UTJ, Jewish Home... But, of course, the differences between the political parties in practice are too big to bridge.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.

The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.