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Quotes About Difference

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.
~ Evan Esar
Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.
~ Francis Quarles
The difference between real acceptance and just backing away from an issue, or away from the whole relationship, is resentment.
~ Terrence Real
Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
~ Terry Pratchett
Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
~ Terry Pratchett
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Whoever allows the cognition of the increase of horror to escape them, does not merely fall prey to cold-hearted contemplation, but fails to recognize, along with the specific difference of what is newest from what has gone before, simultaneously the true identity of the whole, of horror without end.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
~ Theodore Bikel
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
You may not know it, but then again, maybe you do, but your sister is a prostitute." "And that makes a difference?" He looked at her in a speculative way, as if he wondered what she did for a living. "My sister is a person. She deserves the same attention you would give anybody.
~ Theresa Weir
Hence, according to the Philosopher (Metaph. x), "things which are diverse are absolutely distinct, but things which are different differ by something.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I answer that, On this question Augustine differs from other expositors. His opinion is that all the days that are called seven, are one day represented in a sevenfold aspect (Gen. ad lit. iv, 22; De Civ. Dei xi, 9; Ad Orosium xxvi);
~ Thomas Aquinas
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.
~ Thomas Arnold
A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different.
~ Thomas Burnett Swann
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.
~ Joe Wurzelbacher
What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.
~ Alan Tudyk
I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.
~ Pierce Brosnan
When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
~ Walter Becker
Entrepreneurs are resourceful, resilient, and make such a difference in anchoring our neighborhoods.
~ Michelle Wu
This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.
~ Alice Eve
My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.
~ Jeff Bauman
We are an organization led by a purpose - to make a positive, meaningful impact that matters to everyone Deloitte touches. I will do my best to serve the network by helping enable our leaders and people to fulfill their passion to make a difference.
~ Punit Renjen