Quotes About Difference

I truly believe diversity is beauty.

Making a difference - and allowing God to use your gifts to change someone else's life - is truly the greatest joy you will ever experience.

Trusting someone to fight for them and trusting someone, these are two different things.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference.

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.

What you need and what you want aren't the same things.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

such states existed only in comparison

Thus, I die a wise man, not a fool. Is there any difference? I still die, after all. No, there is. I can feel it. That difference — I have cast off my chains. I have cast them off!

To see a dead body was to recoil, mind spinning a dust-devil of thoughts - that is not me - see the difference between us? That is not me, that is not me. No one I know, no one I have ever known. That is not me . . . but . . . it could be. So easily it could be.

Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.

The difference in the quality of consciousness between dreaming and being awake was close to the difference between our old earth life and the one there.

I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness.

The real difference between Aristarchus and today's astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he never tried to judge the uncertainty in them, or even acknowledged that they might be imperfect.

I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and said, "Hey, you have two different colored socks on." I said, "Yeah, I know, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness."

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.