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Quotes About Difference

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...
~ Blaise Pascal
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. 8
~ Blaise Pascal
The ordinary life of men is like that of saints. They all seek satisfaction, and differ only according to the object in which they locate it.
~ Blaise Pascal
Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.
~ Bob Dylan
the difference between aggressive and obnoxious is that the aggressive person has a good book while the obnoxious person has a bad one.
~ Bob Mayer
Don't you see, we are not in the same position. You were given wings to fly above the clouds, but I'm a woman, mine are given me to stay close to the ground and to shelter my young.
~ Boris Pasternak
There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented--- that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.
~ Boris Pasternak
Buenos días, Nicolás —dijo Chick—. ¿No tiene usted una sobrina que se llama Alise? —Sí, señor —dijo Nicolás—. Y una linda muchacha, por cierto, si se me permite el comentario. —Se parece mucho a usted —dijo Chick—. Aunque en lo tocante al busto, haya algunas diferencias.
~ Boris Vian
YouTube video called "The American Form of Government." She wanted them to understand why America was different and why their mom had joined
~ Brad Thor
That was the difference between science and the intelligence field. Scientists came up with an answer and used it to find facts while intelligence operatives came up with facts and used them to find an answer.
~ Brad Thor
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
~ Bram Stoker
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
~ Bram Stoker
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England.
~ Bram Stoker
The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew!
~ Bram Stoker
El verdadero Dios pone atención hasta cuando se cae un gorrión; pero el Dios creado por la vanidad humana no ve diferencia alguna entre un águila y un gorrión. ¡Oh, si los hombres por lo menos supieran!
~ Bram Stoker
It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.
~ Susanna Clarke
There is an ocean of difference between a real all-renouncing devotee of God and a householder devotee. A real sanny?si, a real devotee who has renounced the world, is like a bee. The bee will not light on anything but a flower. It will not drink anything but honey. But a devotee leading the worldly life is like a fly. The fly sits on a festering sore as well as on a
~ Swami Nikhilananda
You're different," he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.
~ Sylvia Day
She's upset. Screaming upset? or crying upset? Does it matter? Yes. There's a difference between being mad at a guy and being a teary mess over him. For example: Deanna is mad and can plot your destruction; I was a teary mess and could barely crawl out of bed every day.
~ Sylvia Day
But what really hurts is that you automatically default to thinking my way is wrong just because I handle things in a way you wouldn't.
~ Sylvia Day
I stared through the Russian girl in her double-breasted gray suit, rattling off idiom after idiom in her own unknowable tongue - which Constantin said was the most difficult part, because the Russians didn't have the same idioms as our idioms - and I wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another. it mightn't make me any happier, but would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.
~ Sylvia Plath
What was there about us, in Belize [asylum], so different from the girls playing bridge and gossiping and studying in college to which I would return? Those girls, too, sat under bell jars of a sort.
~ Sylvia Plath
She never wanted Harry's relations or Harry's old friends; She never wanted to fit herself to Harry, But only to bring Harry down to her own level.
~ T.S. Eliot
Men don't think any differently from women—they just make more noise about being able to.
~ Tamora Pierce