Quotes About Difference

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.

she had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage.

The difference between fifty and sixty is nothing; the difference between eight and eighteen is more or less a lifetime.

I remember having a little bit of a feeling of awe at how differently we looked at the world. It was very foreign to me that they had the ability to stand firm in the face of an expert opinion.

Dear God, I have everything I could wish for, while fate has her in its deadly clutches. She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right. But then why have I been chosen to live, while she's probably going to die? What's the difference between us? Why are we now so far apart?

It's obvious that Mummy would stick up for Margot; she and Margot always do back each other up... He doesn't notice that he treats Margot differently from me.

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you.

the food shortages required inventiveness...Daphne showed me the difference it made if she placed plums in a green bowl or in a yellow bowl before she set them on the table.

without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference

That without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference," he replied. "The rest is detail. Do whatever seems beautiful or of comfort to you.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

And a sad realization drifted through my head, something to do with how young she was, how good she looked in any light, how light didn't make the slightest difference with her. And how old I was, and how all young people, even plain young people, had begun to look beautiful to me.

But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, striving to make a difference when no difference could possibly be made. It was like dipping a stick into the ocean and trying to write something – all the little people of the world spinning out little patterns that lasted no more than a few years, and meant nothing at all.

Deep within us all are the seeds of hate for what is different. We do not have to be taught these things. We have to be taught not to give in to them! They are in our blood; but in our minds is the charity and the love to overcome them.

Women kept the world running, really. (There was a definite difference between 'running the world' and 'keeping it running.')

Wasn't it odd, she said, how much younger they were than their parents had been at the very same age.

He'd been generous, yes, but lots of people are generous; what made him different was the fact that he'd taken responsibility for me.