Quotes About Difference

But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.

As cidades, tal como as florestas, têm os seus antros onde se oculta tudo o que têm de pior e de mais temível. A única diferença é que, nas cidades, o que se esconde assim é feroz, imundo e pequeno, ou seja, feio; nas florestas, o que se esconde é feroz, selvagem e grande, ou seja, belo. Tocas por tocas, as dos animais são preferíveis às dos homens, As cavernas valem mais do que as pocilgas

L'uguaglianza, cittadini, non significa ridurre ogni vegetazione a ad uno stesso livello, una società di giganteschi fili d'erba e querce nane.

Il passaggio da bovaro a carmelitano non ha nulla di stridente: si passa dall'uno all'altro senza gran fatica. Il fondo comune d'ignoranza del villaggio e del convento è una base che mette il contadino allo stesso livello del frate; tenete un po' più grande il gabbano, ed avrete un saio.

The difference between Loreda and her mother wasn't fear—they shared that. It was fire. Her mother's passion had gone out.

I look like any other girl my age, but I am different from most. A survivor. There is no way to forget what we went through in the Great Depression or to unlearn the lessons of hardship. Even though I am only eighteen, I remember my childhood as a time of loss.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

Sometimes I think the only difference between the two groups is that kids have legitimate excuses for their ignorance while adults just invent them.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

The vulgar Turk is very different from what is spoken at court, 'tis as ridiculous to make use of the expressions commonly used in speaking to a great man or lady, as it would be to talk broad Yorkshire or Somershetshire in the drawing room.

I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions.

It's my personal theory that only 27 percent of perceived confidence is actual confidence, and the rest is sham. The key is: If you can't tell the difference, there is no difference.

Watching her, Brimstone added, 'I hope, child, but I don't wish. There's a difference.

I hope, child, but I don't wish. There's a difference.

Watching her, Brimstone added, I hope, child, but I don't wish. There's a difference." She turned this over in her mind, thinking that if she could come up with the difference, it might impress him. Something occurred to her, and she struggled to put it into words. "Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic." "Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

Debes de ver que hay una diferencia entre estar vivo y tener una vida.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble leveling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

So you're suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I'm sure the Clave will be ecstatic." "They'll just say you're mad," said Jessamine. "They already think it, so what's the difference, really?

I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever." (Luke/Lucian)

Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.

He has many things I haven't got," said Jace. "Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination." -Jace about Simon, pg. 331-

Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?