Quotes About Difference

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Concedimi la serenità di accettare le cose che non posso cambiare, il coraggio per cambiare quelle che posso, e la saggezza per riconoscerne la differenza

Para un niño, sentirse diferente a los demás es una de las experiencias más duras. Ser el raro, el tonto, el advenedizo, son situaciones que te predisponen contra tu entorno. Si el mundo te acoge con naturalidad y afecto, te sientes más dispuesto a seguir las normas convencionales. De lo contrario, es más posible que desarrolles la tendencia a huir de él. O a volarlo en pedazos.

In the quiet Rosa came forward and put an arm around her sister. They looked so much alike, and were so different in the way they saw the world. She wondered if Rosa might have been a child more like her sister if circumstance hadn't demanded the impossible of her.

Besides, too much time around normal people made me feel like an alien, unwanted and ugly, fluent in a different language.

One doesn't compare [The Lakes] with Paris, it is the difference I find stimulating.

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956.

Maybe I can find a place here, even with being different. «Look around,» Pixit said. «You already have one.»

The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

All men fall. It's but time and method that differ.

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

I really think of the studio as being like craftsmanship time, and then playing is about releasing energy, and the two are really different.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic. [...] I don't want to be a burden[...]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make—make a difference in the world.

A chicken with its neck wrung is different from a chicken with its head cut off, but does it matter to the chicken?