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Quotes About Difference

Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that could be because I've got an eighteen year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't." Alec sputtered. "As the person being objectified, I ... object to that description of me.
~ Cassandra Clare
The final reason is purely practical and based on sound economic assessment. Whether we work or not makes hardly any difference. So it is only sensible to save electricity, coal, administration, fares and effort.
~ George Mikes
The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.
~ George Moore
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
~ George Orwell
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
~ George Orwell
You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...
~ George R.R. Martin
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
~ George R.R. Martin
Never ask me about Jon; he is my blood and that is all you need to know! Ned was different. He brought his bastard home, and called him son.
~ George R.R. Martin
That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy
~ George R.R. Martin
Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—" "They won't," Tyrion said. "They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.
~ George R.R. Martin
but I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there.
~ George R.R. Martin
Remember this, boy. "All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs
~ George R.R. Martin
one naked girl with a mud up to her knees could not seem to take her eyes off Tyrion. She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face and stuck his tongue out and the girl began to cry
~ George R.R. Martin
It is simpler for her, Catelyn thought with a pang of envy. She was like a man in that. For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there.
~ George R.R. Martin
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~ George S. Patton
We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
~ George Takei
In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee.
~ Gerald Clarke
We can't all be like him, or his brother, or Helms, or the rest of those people.' 'No,' she said sadly. 'But I wish to God we could be something else.
~ Gerald Green
The demonstration starts by filling the two beakers almost to their brims with water and then placing them side-by-side, lips touching. An electrode immersed in each beaker imposes a potential difference on the order of 10 kV.
~ Gerald H. Pollack
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.
~ Samuel Johnson
It's good to know that there's a fine line between an "outfit" and a "getup."
~ Linda Merkin