Quotes About Difference

The difference between dog and cat is immediately obvious. While a dog almost (and occasionally literally) inhales its food the moment it's set down, cats are more cautious. A cat wants to taste a little first. McCarthy directs my gaze to the kibble that has no palatant coating. "See how they feel it in their mouth and then drop it?

When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

For too many people, the only difference between spending life in a job and spending life in a prison is that a prison would give them better health benefits.

Also, questions are an excellent way to get a listener tuned in. They get the listener curious about your story. "Have you heard of…?" or "Do you know what happens when you…?" or "What's the difference between…?" After opening or initiating a conversation, a story must follow.

Similarity is the shadow of difference. Two things are similar by virtue of their difference from another; or different by virtue of one's similarity to a third. So it is with individuals.

It is when we go beyond instinct that we seem most idiosyncratically human. Perhaps, as Darwin suggested, the difference is one of degree rather than kind; it is quantitative, not qualitative.

explanation of the difference between a language and a dialect:

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one's perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that's the trick.

Probably some period thing. I go completely mental too. Period fever. It's the worst. This effectively killed all conversation for a while. ...Fixed that, she said. You told him I had period fever , I replied. There's no such thing as period fever. No such thing as ghosts either. No, there is really no such thing as period fever. There's a difference between being a guy and being an idiot .

But knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things.

We all have an innate desire to make a difference, to make an impact, to be seen, to be heard, to leave behind something better than what we're brought into.

This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide—as, I think, he will.

A rational, self-confident man is motivated by a love of values and by a desire to achieve them. A neurotic is motivated by fear and by a desire to escape it. This difference in motivation is reflected, not only in the things each type of man will seek for pleasure, but in the nature of the pleasure they will experience.

Perpetration of serious violence and crime is in fact the most distinctive sex difference there is, cross-culturally.

These people," he had said with his inscrutable smile, "are different from us. They don't care about books and such things.

Now that the mullahs ruled the land, religion was used as an instrument of power, an ideology. It was this ideological approach to faith that differentiated those in power from millions of ordinary citizens, believers like Mahshid, Manna and Yassi, who found the Islamic Republic their worst enemy.

I tossed a stick into the fire. "Attitudes aren't so different in America," I told Francis. "You are probably right," he said. "But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

In fact, the only difference between Trump's style of politics and theirs was Trump's lack of inhibition. He understood instinctively what moved the conservative base most, and he offered it up in an unadulterated form.

It wasn't that people didn't know the difference between good and bad policy. It just didn't matter.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect. A year passes and you know you feel differently, but you're not sure what or why or how, so your mind casts back for something that might give that difference shape: a word, a glance, a touch.

Il denaro non è l'unica risposta, ma fa la differenza.