Quotes About Difference

I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.

Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.

the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

We thought it over, and drew a conclusion: The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future. A great idea begins to emerge, taking ever-more-clearly-articulated form, in ever more-clearly-articulated stories: What's the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful? The successful sacrifice. Things get better, as the successful practise their sacrifices.

Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power, and damned with faint praise, and denigrated, and punished. And ambition is sometimes exactly that wish for undue influence on others. But there is a crucial difference between sometimes and always. Authority is not mere power, and it is extremely unhelpful, even dangerous, to confuse the two. When people exert power

Horus differs from Osiris, his father, in his willingness to see.

Queer. And not in the way I like.

The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized elite groups. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.

La envidia y la emulación parientes dicen que son; aunque en todo diferentes al fin también son parientes el diamante y el carbón.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.

The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me for such, and I am grateful, because woe is me! The day the would wish to give me back my sanity, that day they'll deprive me of the little liberty that I have bought at the cost of my reputation as a rational being. And who knows if they are right? I neither think nor live according to their laws; my principles, my ideals are different.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

The mass is all which sets no value on itself??good or ill??based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The mass crushes beneath it everything which is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.

three years there are 1,092 days, and in five years 1,820 days, so that in eight years there are 2,912 days. (Author's note: At the end of five years a week may be added to bring the year back in line. Compare 1826.25 days of the solar year in five years to 1820 days of the Enochian calendar after five years. This leaves 6.25 days difference.

The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...

The difference between God and a US senator? God doesn't think he's a senator.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Conceptual Differences Between Consolidation and Reconsolidation. According to consolidation theory each time we retrieve a memory we retrieve the original memory. Reconsolidation theory, on the other hand, suggests that each time we retrieve a memory, the memory is potentially changed (updated); thus, you retrieve the memory you stored after the last retrieval rather than the original memory.

In other words, the servants may not know the difference between wheat and weeds. The servants are told that the decision will be made at the harvest.