Quotes About Differences

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

The cry used to be for 'tolerance,' by which we meant, 'We have very strong differences, but we will not let those be the cause of hatred or violence between us. Now it is something else, where all convictions are softened to second or third place while we all agree to enjoy the world as much as we can. But truth is not like conviction. Conviction might be a matter of personal opinion, but truth is like a great mountain, solid and immovable whether we like it or even acknowledge it.

So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

Love is magical, and it can last, if we remember our differences.

Not only do men and women communicate differently but they think, feel, perceive, react, respond, love, need, and appreciate differently.

When men and women are single for a long time, the differences are sometimes not as defined.

Not only do men and women communicate differently but they think, feel, perceive, react, respond, love, need, and appreciate differently. They almost seem to be from different planets, speaking different languages and needing different nourishment.

Men mistakenly expect women to think, communicate, and react the way men do; women mistakenly expect men to feel, communicate, and respond the way women do. We have forgotten that men and women are supposed to be different. As a result our relationships are filled with unnecessary friction and conflict.

Increasing tolerance for our differences does not mean passive acceptance of a problematic or passionless relationship. Instead, this healthy adaptation is based on real insight that helps us to understand our partners better and respond in ways that are more loving and will inspire the best in them.

Many highlanders spoke Gaelic rather than Lowland Scots, exacerbating cultural differences.

He is not concerned with arguments to establish a position, as in much traditional philosophy. Rather, he is teaching a skill that is critical and destabilizing, seeking to fracture the artificial unities we construct with our minds, so that we can see differences.

one of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had already begun to make fun of them.

It's bullshit that those two had no known illnesses—they had sexual intolerance up the wazoo!" Nora was raving. "They had incurable hatred of sexual differences!" Nora shouted.

The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear of such a war turned out to be greater than all of the differences that separated the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, there was now reason for hope that it would never take place.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

The happiest couples never have the same character. They just have the best understanding of their differences.

What brought us together, was what ripped us apart. Our different point of view and our opposite sized hearts...

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Acceptance of each others differences is the key to change.

Friendship is not about finding similarities, it is about respecting differences. You are not my friend because you are like me, but because I accept you and respect you the way you are.