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Quotes About Difference

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
~ Mark Twain
the difference between the stuff here, and the indifferently poured swill you get where you come from, is like night and day. One is beer, the other, angels sing celestial trombones.
~ Anthony Bourdain
In an inexplicable way he was quite different from anyone else....He was smallish, neat, solidly built....Possibly he was a man who at once became self-conscious before a camera. Even snapshots tend to give him an air of swagger, a kind of cockiness he did not possess at all. [On. F. Scott Fitzgerald]
~ Anthony Powell
toda la diferencia se reduce a la manera en que nos comunicamos con nosotros mismos y a las acciones que emprendemos.
~ Anthony Robbins
She became aware that she had thought the less of him because he had thought the more of her. She had worshipped this other man because he had assumed superiority and had told her that he was big enough to be her master. But now, -- now that it was all too late, -- the veil had fallen from her eyes. She could now see the difference between manliness and 'deportment.
~ Anthony Trollope
The most deadly enemies of the Roman Catholics are they who love best their religion as Protestants. When we look to individuals we always find it so, though it hardly suits us to admit as much when we discuss these subjects broadly.
~ Anthony Trollope
I should. That's the difference between us." "He can't very well eat me." "Nor even bite you; — nor will he abuse you. But he can look at you, and he can say a word or two which you will find it very hard to bear. My governor is the quietest man I know, but he has a way of making himself disagreeable when he wishes, that I never saw equalled
~ Anthony Trollope
Her sister, who was three years her elder
~ Anthony Trollope
That there should be so wide a difference between us Americans and these English, from whom we were divided, so to say, but the other day, is one of the most peculiar physiological phenomena that the history of the world will have afforded. As
~ Anthony Trollope
There was a significant reminder of the history they all shared: 'It is hoped that a difference in religious persuasion [Catholic as opposed to Protestant] will not shut the hearts of the English Public against their suffering brethren, the Christians of France.
~ Antonia Fraser
Asperger syndrome.
~ Antony Beevor
So, Mr. Herbert," Mei Li continued, looking at Lou once more, "did it make a difference to Jenny? I don't know. But it made a difference to me. It helped me keep a heart at peace. And I think that might have made a difference to her. Like Yusuf and Avi always tell us, we can't be agents of peace until our own hearts are at peace.
~ Arbinger Institute
And by this very difference tragedy stands apart in relation to comedy, for the latter intends to imitate those who are worse, and the former better, than people are now.
~ Aristotle
Being cannot be one in form, though it may be in what it is made of. (Even some of the physicists hold it to be one in the latter way, though not in the former.) Man obviously differs from horse in form, and contraries from each other.
~ Aristotle
But there is a difference: in Rhetoric, one who acts in accordance with sound argument, and one who acts in accordance with moral purpose,are both called rhetoricians; but in Dialectic it is the moral purpose that makes the sophist, the dialectician being one whose arguments rest, not on moral purpose but on the faculty. Let
~ Aristotle
Nh?ng thói quen t?t ta hình thành khi còn tr? không t?o nên khác bi?t nh? nào, Ä'úng hÆ¡n, chúng t?o ra t?t c? khác bi?t
~ Aristotle
And here we must not forget the difference between reasoning from principles, and reasoning to principles:
~ Aristotle
there appears to be a certain difference among the ends: some ends are activities, others are certain works apart from the activities themselves, and in those cases in which there are certain ends apart from the actions, the works are naturally better than the activities.
~ Aristotle,
Het verschil tussen loonarbeid en slavernij is een semantische kwestie
~ Arnon Grunberg
But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
~ Shirley Jackson
It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be.
~ Shirley Jackson
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides , the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.
~ Shirley Jackson
Pinye said Canada was in Canada. To be exact, it was in America. That is, Canada and America were the same place, with a difference
~ Sholom Aleichem