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Quotes About Different

It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, and the fear of being an outcast. The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
But after dark, Marilla, it's different. That is when ghosts walk." "There are no such things as ghosts, Anne.
~ L.M. Montgomery
El pasado es un país extranjero: allí las cosas se hacen de manera distinta.
~ L.P. Hartley
I wondered why God created so many varieties of faiths in the world if He intended all of us to worship Him in the same fashion.
~ Laila Lalami
But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.
~ Larry McMurtry
Your Comanche don't hunger much after señoritas. White women are easier to steal, and don't eat as much besides. The Kiowa are different. They fancy señoritas.
~ Larry McMurtry
Najtragi?niji oblik gubitka nije gubitak sigurnosti, nego gubitak sposobnosti da zamislimo kako bi život mogao biti druga?iji.
~ Laura Kipnis
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
~ Laurell K Hamilton
She'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Remember, that the darkness is not bad, just different, and all that is good, or bad, is there in the light, or the dark, only our perception changes.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
with its head under its wing. I was so sorry, yet so glad. 'For us, the living, the problem is of a totally different order: how to harness time in the cultivation of a style of heart — something like that?
~ Lawrence Durrell
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
~ Carl Linnaeus
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
~ Oliver Sacks
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
~ Marcel Proust
Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness. Or the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land different from yours in terms of being able to oppose the sense of meaninglessness, the loss of criteria and, ultimately, moral blindness and the loss of sensitivity.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.
~ Alain de Botton
Using a single word to describe two different things suggests a disregard for the world's real diversity which bears comparison with that shown by the cliché user.
~ Alain de Botton
They were no different from day sounds, but anything that wears the cloak of night, especially on an alien world, partakes of the night's mystery and terror.
~ Alan Dean Foster
So trivial are the traces of different natures that remain [in people]…that nothing hinders our living a life worthy of gods.
~ Alan Lightman
Stephanie thought about the world she'd grown up in, and how different it was from the world she'd been introduced to, and yet how similar. There was joy and happiness in both, just as there was heartbreak and horror. There was good and evil and everything in between, and these qualities seemed to be shared equally in the worlds of the magical and the mundane. It was her life now. She couldn't imagine living without either one.
~ Derek Landy