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Quotes About Difference

Mum Paula says that she has two very different boys. 'I could put it like this: Rami stands for reason and Kimi for action. When it's Kimi, if there's the smallest gap, he'll slip past. Rami is more of a gentleman, so that if someone catches up with him, he might think, Go on, pass. If Kimi sees the tiniest chink, he'll exploit it.
~ Kari Hotakainen
Demokrasi ve despotizm aras?ndaki fark: demokrasilerde kan dökmeden hükümetler devrilir; oysa despotizmde bu böyle de?ildir. 3. Demokrasi, vatanda?lara iyilikler sunamaz (ve sunmamal? da). Gerçekten de "demokrasi" tek ba??na bir ?ey yapamaz; bir ?eyler yapacak olan ancak demokratik bir devletin vatanda?lar?d?r (ve ku?kusuz hükümetleridir).
~ Karl Raimund Popper
I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?
~ Kate DiCamillo
Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
~ Kate Middleton
Where Evangeline came to below his shoulder, Gail was a head taller. An easier distance from which to spit in his eye, he thought spitefully.
~ Kate Noble
Joe said of herself: 'I was never a little girl. I came out of the womb queer.
~ Kate Summerscale
The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.
~ Fynn
Fynn, you can love better than any people that ever was, and so can I, can't I? But Mister God is different. You see, Fynn, people can only love outside and can only kiss outside, but Mister God can love you right inside, and Mister God can kiss you right inside, so it's different. Mister God ain't like us; we are a little bit like Mister God, but not much yet.
~ Fynn
Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar. What I believe to my very core is that virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn't love. And it wasn't love if you didn't worry.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie felt a swelling love and of worry for him -- what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn't love. And it wasn't love if you didn't worry.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They, honest to God, think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them. I sound like I'm making fun, and I am a little, but I don't mean to be. They're so different from us, really. Their standards are higher; they call bullshit on so much of the sexism and racism that I, at least, just lived with. But that's also made them kind of, well, humorless.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What I believe to my very core is that virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
he thought that the crowd seemed to part for her, in a way that the world never moved for him.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She is at least four inches taller than A.J. "But we have a meeting.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
It is not fit that men should be compared with gods.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
I've always felt almost human. I've always known that there's something about me that's different than other dogs. Sure, I'm stuffed into a dog's body, but that's just the shell. It's what's inside that's important. The soul. And my soul is very human.
~ Garth Stein
And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.
~ Garth Stein
I didn't really expect her to accept, not with her being a humanoid and me a barnyard.
~ Gary K. Wolf