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Quotes About Difference

He has never been in a place like this, where no one gives him a second glance. If his father was here, he'd be the one standing out, not Bird, and Bird laughs. For the first time in his life, he is unremarkable, and this feels like power.
~ Celeste Ng
Reverend James] Dobson says that the [Spongebob Squarepants] video would be watched by millions of elementary school students and includes a reference to being 'tolerant of differences.' The nerve! Who does Spongebob think he is? Jesus Christ? Tolerance will not be, uh, tolerated. Oh, and tolerance is quite possibly closesly connected to gay-ance.
~ Celia Rivenbark
Münaka?ada zafer, ma?lup olan?nd?r, yenilmek zenginle?mektir. …Münaka?a hakikati birlikte aramakt?r… Hakikat bin bir cepheli, bin bir görünü?lü. Kar??n?zdaki, göremedi?inizi gösterecek size. Sizden farkl? dü?ündü?ü ölçüde yarat?c? ve ö?reticidir.
~ Cemil Meriç
?nanmayan insan?n, sevemeyen insan?n, ac?yamayan, k?zamayan insan?n köpek le?inden fark? yok.
~ Cemil Meriç
A snob, incidentally, I tell them, is interested in a person because they are of high class. An elitist is interested in a person because they are interesting. That's the difference.
~ Chandler Burr
It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not
~ Charles Barkley
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
~ Charles Bukowski
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
~ Charles Dickens
The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that we know it is all meaningless, and say so, while they know it equally and will never say so.
~ Charles Dickens
Such is the difference between yesterday and today. We are all going to the play, or coming home from it.
~ Charles Dickens
Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same.
~ Charles Dickens
It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.
~ Charles Dickens
Fu quella una data memorabile per me, poiché portò a molti mutamenti in me stesso. Avviene la medesima cosa in ogni esistenza. Immaginate un dato giorno distaccato da tutti gli altri, e pensate come avrebbe potuto esserne differente tutto il corso. Fermati, tu che leggi, e rifletti per un istante sulla lunga catena di ferro od oro, di spini o fiori, che non ti avrebbe mai avvinto, se non si fosse formato il primo anello in quell'unica, memorabile giornata.
~ Charles Dickens
I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine.
~ Charles Dickens
All the six hundred and fifty-eight members in the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; who are strong lovers no doubt, but of their country only, which makes all the difference; for in a passion of that kind (which is not always returned), it is the custom to use as many words as possible, and express nothing whatever.
~ Charles Dickens
Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?
~ Charles Dickens
He dicho: ¡Que Dios los bendiga! —corrige el primero, volviendo bruscamente la cabeza. —Yo he dicho ¡Que Dios los salve! —insiste el segundo—. ¿Encuentra usted alguna diferencia?
~ Charles Dickens
we need to mark the difference between what another may offer, threaten, or refuse while respecting my liberty and what offers, threats, and refusals violate it. It is the line between my rights and the rights of another. Marking that line is liberty's most difficult intellectual task.
~ Charles Fried
The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.
~ Author Unknown
Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day — they make a difference every day!
~ Author Unknown
The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "[f*@%]."
~ Author Unknown
Number is different from quantity.
~ Gregory Bateson