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Quotes About Difference

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
~ Alexander Pope
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
~ Henry Miller
Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion... What's the difference
~ Neal Stephenson
To the Equity Lords, the idea had been worth billions; to Hackworth, another week's paycheck. That was the difference between the classes, right there.
~ Neal Stephenson
Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?
~ Neal Stephenson
The difference between human cultures and the civilizations of Highly Evolved Beings is that HEBs actually apply the law of reciprocity in their lives, rather than just giving it lip service.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I am a guy, I say. And I hate boys, she says. But a guy's different, I say. Maybe a little, she says.
~ Ned Vizzini
But, um, I kind of wondered if I could have your phone number, so I can call you when we're out of here.' She smiles and her cuts outline her face like a cat's whispers. 'Crafty.' 'I am a guy,' I say. 'And I hate boys,' she says. 'But a guy's different,' I say. 'Maybe a little,' she says.
~ Ned Vizzini
Even if you're bad at math, you're probably much better at it than the smartest chimpanzee, whose genetic identity varies in only trifling ways from ours.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
German physicist Heinrich Hertz had shown that the only real difference among the various kinds of light is the frequency of the waves in each band.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
How will I know the difference?" "Wounds bring drama and trauma. They don't bring comfort.
~ Neil Strauss
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD once wrote, "The rich are different from you and me," to which Hemingway famously replied, "Yes, they have more money.
~ Nelson DeMille
A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water. "What are you doing, son?" the man asks. "You see how many starfish there are? You'll never make a difference." The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. "It sure made a difference to that one," he said.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference
~ Nicholas Sparks
He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The equality of men and women is not possible because both are different. A mountain is a mountain, and a river is a river.
~ Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.
~ Seymour Hersh
I have to say, if I live in Japan, I think I was going to have different life. There is too much attention. I feel like I'm a star there. But I think it's good thing that I live in States.
~ Kei Nishikori
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
~ Laila Ali
I just knew I had it, but my mum and dad were always great, and it was always a thing I had but a thing that wasn't bad. It was just saying like, I have brown hair, I have brown eyes, and I've got cerebral palsy.
~ Rosie Jones