Quotes About Difference

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

How long, O God, will we go on with a mock Christianity that takes the tribalism of our world for granted? How long, O God, will we be satisfied with the way things are? How long, O God, will we try to "make some difference in the world" while leaving the basic patterns of the world unaffected? How long, O God will we take consolation in numbers, buildings, and structures, when millions of your children are dying? How long, O Sovereign Lord, will we remain blind to the lessons of history?

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Fame and success are very different things.

nunca haveria diferença entre um prazer e outro, como de fato existe.

They don't talk the same language as us. I don't mean that they don't speak English, but that their minds are different. They're like animals, and because I hate the sight and sound of them, and because you're a Britisher, I'm telling you to get out now while the going's good.

Dos caminos se dividían en un bosque y yo tomé el menos transitado, y eso estableció una gran diferencia.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

Then I remembered a joke told by a Tibetan friend: "What is the difference between a Buddhist and a non-Buddhist?" The answer: "The non-Buddhist thinks there is one.

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.

For a dog is not like a cat. Like men, a dog has learnt to fear heights. And yet it was the only way.

The land girls from Shillingbury Farm looked the most altered

Speaking' and 'Saying' are two different languages. Speaking discharges resonance. Saying emanates ideas. ( "Words flew away like birds" )

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an "evolutionary" difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong

I'll always be your friend, Talltail. But I'm a kittypet and you're a warrior. You'll always be a Warrior.

felt his heart begin to beat faster. Suddenly it didn't matter that she wasn't tortoiseshell, and that her eyes were pale green, not amber.

Trying to be normal is the greatest abnormality in the world.

At a certain point as a child, we notice that the food at home is not the same as the dinners our friends eat.

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another's differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this "In order to love you, I must make you something else". That's what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Ghosts, I was thinking, memories – I wasn't sure there was a difference.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

A man who differs from another in Opinion sets himself above him in his own Judgement, and in several Particulars pretends to be the wiser Person.

The Hassidim tell a story about the world to come that says everything there will be just as it is here. [...] Everything will be as it is now, just a little different.