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Quotes About Difference

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The security guy asked my name address and phone number, and then he asked me what was the difference between a condom and a cockpit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
~ Claire Messud
Land meant something different in Hawai'i then it did in California. People here said the word with a kind of worship in their voices.
~ Clemence McLaren
Lincoln replied:There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.
~ Clint Johnson
The way she saw it, she was lucky. She wasn't really blind—she just saw a different world from most other folks, and that put her in a unique position to do some good in the world.
~ Clive Barker
Miss Lucy recoiled from the comparison. If you can't see the difference between good, upstanding people and the mentally disturbed, with criminals and imbeciles, you're not the person I thought you were. I'm not the person you thought I was.
~ Colson Whitehead
To preempt rejection she dresses to exaggerate her difference when the true enemy is not the world's disdain but its indifference. He is surely the next item in a dreary procession and cannot be seen for all those previous disappointments.
~ Colson Whitehead
But today's society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
But today's society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Meaning is relative inasmuch as it is related to a specific person who is entangled in a specific situation. One could say that meaning differs in two respects: first, from man to man, and second, from day to day—indeed, from hour to hour.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything substantial from him successfully. The ape is too distant to be sedulous. Perhaps
~ Virginia Woolf
The weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything substantial from him successfully. The ape is too distant to be sedulous.
~ Virginia Woolf
You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
When organizations fail to register the difference between value innovation and innovation per se, they all too often end with an innovation that breaks new ground but does not unlock the mass of target buyers
~ W. Chan Kim
What a difference a border makes: on one side of an invisible line, food; on the other side, none. On one side, peace. On the other side, war. On one side, quiet in the sunlight. On the other side the dangerous chee-eep, chee-eep, chee-eep, that was not birds, the BANG! of shells, the whine of sirens, and the bursting of bombs over crowded cities.
~ Langston Hughes
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
~ lanier jaron ii
You look like Eidolon," she said quietly. "But you're so different." He grunted. "All Seminus demons are nearly identical to their siblings, but our behavior varies because we're raised by different species." "But . . . Wraith. He's blond." "Bleached." "His eyes are blue." "That's because they aren't his." "They aren't his eyes?"
~ Larissa Ione
You don't appreciate confidence?" "I don't appreciate arrogance. There's a difference." "And what is the difference?" "Confidence is arrogance without an asshole
~ Larissa Ione
I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.
~ Larry Niven