Quotes About Differences

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed" (17)

I wondered if, at the end, she had known that she was dying, if she'd been in pain or if she'd been afraid, and I thought about how, in spite of all the ways we were different, Drue had spent a lot of her life being lonely… just like me.

We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

The basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.

Geert Hofstede, a world-renowned cultural psychologist, concluded in a very famous study about cultural differences that America had the highest level of individualism in the world. That is pretty incredible. We are so programmed to think about "I" that we probably don't even realize it.

That might be true, but love comes from the way differences interact. How personalities interact. How we bounce off of each other, challenge each other, and how we push and pull. It's through those tensions that we connect with others and with ourselves. And it's how we fall in love.

Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch.

Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

That is one of the truths about American business that you are least likely to read about in a major media outlet: income inequality is mostly about the differences between the superstar companies and the others.

It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions....What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such an act? There is sickness in the nation when political differences cannot be accepted and settled in the democratic way. (from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

minds, who can show the rest of us what is important about the aliens' differences. So Trixia's

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.

Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.

So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulous stripes.

More important still, we do not yet know how many of these differences are really due to the different genetic endowments of the different races and sexes, and how many are due to poor schools, poor housing, and other factors that are the result of past and continuing discrimination. Perhaps all of the important differences will eventually prove to be environmental rather than genetic.

Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.

he and Cease were united by karmic connections so essential to our mutual inner balance that the endless differences of our minds are a constant amusement to us both

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.