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Quotes About Difference

Many grains of frankincense on the same altar: one falls before, another falls after; but it makes no difference.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For when the soul is deprived of emotion, what difference is there — I do not say between man and the beasts of the field, but between man and a stock or a stone, or any such thing?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—                               I took the road less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —ROBERT FROST
~ Mardy Grothe
he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
~ Margaret Atwood
the difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn.
~ Margaret Atwood
Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?
~ Margaret Atwood
She was a more charitable person than I was; I admired her in that, but I could not emulate her.
~ Margaret Atwood
What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either.
~ Margaret Atwood
Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do.
~ Margaret Atwood
Bir yumruk onu meydana getiren parmaklar?n toplam?ndan fazla bir ?eydir.
~ Margaret Atwood
The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.
~ Margaret Atwood
Is it disapproval or extreme lust? Toby wonders. With some men it's hard to tell the difference.
~ Margaret Atwood
God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference?
~ Margaret Atwood
Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'There's a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.
~ Margaret Mitchell
All you've done is to be different from other women and you've made a little success at it. As I've told you before, that is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! Scarlett, the mere fact that you've made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn't succeeded. Remember, a well-bred female's place is in the home and she should know nothing about this busy, brutal world.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.
~ Abdus Salam
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.
~ Gail Carriger
...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.
~ Ally Condie
The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.
~ Brigham Young
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."
~ Anthony the Great
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
~ Will Rogers
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
~ Robert Mitchum
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
~ Graham Greene