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Quotes About Difference

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
~ Rick Warren
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.
~ June Jordan
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
~ David Deida
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
~ Audre Lorde
The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
~ Mira Grant
I hated to hound the guy at the sausage table, but I wanted to learn the difference between saucisson à l'âne, donkey sausage, and saucisson du taureau, bull sausage. That donkey stuff tastes, well, just a little different.
~ Sheron Long
One man's "ugly" is another man's "beautiful.
~ Sherry Argov
It might be delusional on mu part to hope my actions will matter, but better that than sitting back in the belief that they won't. Not trying is the surest way of never making a difference.
~ Sherry Thomas
Her smiles were her armor. They were a necessity. But of course, a man like him wouldn't know the difference.
~ Sherry Thomas
His misfortune is that he was born fun-loving into a tribe that doesn't understand fun.
~ Sherry Thomas
Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and so is every death.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
THE DIFFERENCE If I buy a photocopier from you, I have made a transaction and am considered a customer. However, if I start buying all my office equipment from you, I have developed a relationship and have become a client. I have developed a relationship because of which I (the client) keep buying more and more. That's the difference between transactional and relationship selling. A salesperson's philosophy is reflected in his behavior and
~ Shiv Khera
Every man's Paris is his own, with its own characteristics, and is in some respects at least unlike the Paris of any one else.
~ Sidney Dark
the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Ma non dovete adombrarvi: gli sciocchi fanno parte della vita come gli alberi e la terra, ma ricordate, siate attenta e prudente, perché gli sciocchi sono dannatamente pericolosi. Sapete la differenza tra uno sciocco e un malvagio, piccola principessa?" Questa volta Chiara si lasciò scappare un cenno di diniego. "I malvagi ci danneggiano per ricavarne un guadagno. Gli sciocchi ci danneggiano senza alcun profitto. E' possibile trattare con i malvagi, non con gli idioti.
~ Silvana de Mari
Il Cavaliere di Luce non si arrende mai. E continua a battersi e si batterà sempre fino alla fine, e fino a quando ci sarà lui, fino a quando ci sarà un solo giusto, allora il mondo sarà salvato. Solo quando nessun giusto ci sarà più il mondo sarà perduto, quindi ognuno è colui che può fare la differenza. Proprio quando tutto sembra perduto, è allora che non dobbiamo rinunciare a batterci.
~ Silvana de Mari
Nothing is the same.
~ Silvia Hartmann
The mid-century Conservative Party in England had arrived at a universal font truth: we tend to treat the traditional and familiar as trustworthy. We are dubious of fonts that alert us to their difference, or fonts that seem to be trying too hard. We don't like being consciously sold things, or paying for fancy design we don't need.
~ Simon Garfield
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
~ Simon Pegg
about her offer of a Swedish massage] Alex: You're not Swedish. Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.
~ Simone Elkeles
Come here and lie on your stomach. I know how to give Swedish massages. It'll relax you." "You're not Swedish," I say. "Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.
~ Simone Elkeles
c'avissi a cadiriri 'a lingua a quelli che dicono la parola "diverso!" esclamò Maria. "Tutti uguali siamo, ricordatelo, a anessuno capita quello non è già capitato agli altri, non c'è mai niente di nuovo a questo mondo vecchio assai, ma i cristiani non lo capiscono.
~ Simonetta Agnello Hornby
I think there's a difference between God and religion.
~ Sinead O'Connor
E era apenas o contraste dessas duas entidades: o Ser e a Sombra, a Luz e as Trevas, que impressionara o jovem com a diferença que havia entre elas, ou seja, o homem e o sobre-humano.
~ Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton