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Quotes About Differences

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.
~ Unknown
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.
~ Sarah Dessen
Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.
~ Unknown
Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.
~ Unknown
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For all the differences that divide us from humanity across the sea or down the centuries, it is through suffering that we maintain a common bond.
~ Unknown
It seemed to me we'd practised segregation for centuries now and that hadn't worked either. What would satisfy all the noughts and the Crosses who felt the same as Mum? Separate countries? Separate planets? How far away was far enough? What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?
~ Malorie Blackman
That is, I feel, the concern of the educator - to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.
~ Maria Irene Fornes
And then I asked myself whether originality did indeed prove that great writers are gods, ruling each over a kingdom that is his alone, or whether there is not an element of sham in it all, whether the differences between one man's books and another's were not the result of their respective labours rather than the expression of a radical and essential difference between diverse personalities.
~ Marcel Proust
What if I told you that that which makes you fundamentally human is something that you share with another people, a people so different from you that they might appear strange or frightening at first glance. A people who might terrify you from appearance alone. Could you make the jump, and understand that inside, they are not so different at all?
~ John Scalzi
Os ucranianos não são como os russos: são um tipo de eslavo diferente. E embora na sua maioria falem e leiam russo, a sua língua é diferente e autónoma, mais parecida com as línguas eslavas do Sul do que com o Russo. Muitas palavras ucranianas, em particular palavras relativas ao mundo rural, são as mesmas que em húngaro, e muitas das suas palavras são mais parecidas com o checo do que com o russo.
~ John Steinbeck
People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
~ Homer
Never have I seen a world without evil, but never have I either seen a world without good. Light and dark balanced, differences and religions set aside, we join in times of loss.
~ Unknown
Some people will test you, some will use you, and some will teach you; but most importantly some will bring out the best in you. Learn to see and accept the differences between these people, and carry on accordingly.
~ Unknown
Although expression may suffice to make us believe in enormous differences between things that are separated by infinitely little—although that infinitely little may by itself create an expression that is absolutely unique, an individuality—it was not only the infinitely little differences of its lines and the originality of its expression that made these faces appear irreducible to
~ Marcel Proust
Albeit expression suffices to make us believe in enormous differences between things that are separated by infinitely little — albeit that infinitely little may by itself create an expression that is absolutely unique, an individuality — it was not only the infinitely little of its lines and the originality of its expression that made each of these faces appear irreducible to terms of any other.
~ Marcel Proust
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
~ Unknown
Time seemed to have just gone, in big clumps, or all the day was happening at once or something, I was wondering so hard about what was to come, I was watching so hard the differences from our normal days. I wished I had more time to think, before she went right down, all the way down; my mind was going breathless, trying to get all its thinking done.
~ Unknown
For the child with such exercises makes, to a certain extent, a selection of his own tendencies, which were at first confused in the unconscious disorder of his movements. It is remarkable how clearly individual differences show themselves, if we proceed in this way; the child, conscious and free, reveals himself.
~ Maria Montessori
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
~ Eugene McCarthy
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
~ TS Eliot
Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of 'em. There's a good to all of 'em and there's a bad.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Their surprise was compounded by the fact that these new churches were separated not only by geography but also by subtle, but important, differences in Christian teaching that almost no one had noticed so long as their attention had been fixed on reforming the whole Western church.
~ Unknown