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Quotes About Difference

A single and same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and same Ocean for all the drops, a single clamour of Being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop and each voice has reached the state of excess -- in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Difference is not diversity. Diversity is given, but difference is that by which the given is given, that by which the given is given as diverse. Difference is not the phenomena but the noumena closest to the phenomena.
~ Gilles Deleuze
A single and the same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and the same ocean for all the drops, a single clamor of being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop, and each voice has reached the state of excess - in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Perhaps the highest object of art is to bring into play simultaneously all these repetitions, with their differences in kind and rhythm, their respective displacements and disguises, their divergences and decentrings; to embed them in one another and to envelop one or the other in illusions the 'effect' of which varies in each case.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Como si [...] algo nos invitara a no concebir más la diferencia analógico/digital como una oposición. De cierta manera, es posible y deseable injertar código sobre lo analógico para aumentar su potencia.
~ Gilles Deleuze
La tâche de la vie est de faire coexister toutes les répétitions dans un espace où se distribue la différence.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Birini gerçekten sevmekle onu sevme fikrini sevmek aras?nda çok büyük fark vard?r.
~ Gillian Flynn
I rent a small brick bungalow within a loop of other small brick bungalows, all of which squat on a massive bluff overlooking the former stockyards of Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference.
~ Gillian Flynn
Es ist ein Unterschied, ob man einen Menschen wirklich liebt oder nur die Idee von ihm.
~ Gillian Flynn
I'll take those for my room, Momma. They look fine to me." "They're not." "I don't mind." "Camille, I was just looking at them, and they're not good blooms." She dropped the pliers to the ground, began tugging at a stem. "But they're fine for me. For my room." "Oh, now look what you've done. I'm bleeding.
~ Gillian Flynn
The Guardships don't defend Canon, they exterminate Canon's enemies. There's a difference.
~ Glen Cook
Nellie's brow furrowed. The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that? Dan grinned. I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.
~ Gordon Korman
What a difference a few months make. Back then I had such a high opinion of the great Chase Ambrose that I considered myself untouchable. Now it's the opposite. I hate myself so much that there's no way any judge could hate me more.
~ Gordon Korman
parents genuinely loved her—not like my dad
~ Gordon Korman
Many charismatics do not know the difference between legalism and self-discipline.
~ Graham Cooke
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
~ Graham Greene
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
~ Graham Greene
That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.
~ Graham Greene
Can't one love or hate, I broke out at him, as long as that? Don't make any mistake. I'm just another of your jealous clients, I don't claim to be any different fro m the rest,but there's been a time-lag in my case.
~ Graham Greene
malnutrition is much safer for the rich than starvation. Starvation makes a man desperate. Malnutrition makes him too tired to raise a fist. The Americans understand that well – the aid they give us makes just that amount of difference. Our people do not starve – they wilt.
~ Graham Greene
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think
~ Gregory Bateson
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
~ Gregory Bateson
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
~ Gregory David Roberts