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Quotes About Difference

Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.
~ Gong Li
all monsters were misunderstood.
~ Unknown
There is a world of difference between the personality traits and behaviours it takes to be chosen as a leader and the traits and skills you need to be able to lead.
~ Unknown
When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world? Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old.
~ Toni Morrison
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
~ Tony Benn
The only difference between compassionate conservatism and conservatism is that under compassionate conservatism they tell you they're not going to help you but they're really sorry about it.
~ Tony Blair
Some people think the theists get off easy by offering eternal life, but in my experience it is awfully difficult to reconcile the death of a child with the idea of a loving God. As a Christian, I knew what to say, but I don't think my words made much of a difference. What mattered most was just being there and sharing the hurt.
~ Tony Campolo
Keed, ya ever feel like you were in the circus?" But before Grant could answer, he was startled by Babe's next words. "I do. All the time. It's the circus, and I'm one of the freaks.
~ Unknown
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
~ Tony Evans
Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.
~ Tori Amos
Do you know the difference between the first love and the last? It's this: you always think the first love is the last and the last the first...
~ Tove Jansson
One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness.
~ Unknown
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.
~ Townes Van Zandt
Love is not the answer to everything, but it creates a climate of security in which we can seek answers to those things that bother us. In the security of love, a couple can discuss differences without condemnation. Conflicts can be resolved. Two people who are different can learn to live together in harmony. We discover how to bring out the best in each other. Those are the rewards of love.
~ Unknown
There is a difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes to painting," he explained as he worked, "but it is not necessarily as great as you may think. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things-tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids-are they not celebrating God's creation as well?
~ Tracy Chevalier
The difference is that leveling characters is artificial; leveling XDMs, that's real!
~ Tracy Hickman
Y'know, I kind of prefer it when the dead stay dead.' 'Pot. Kettle. Black,' Owen said. 'Yeah,' agreed Jack with a shrug. 'The difference is, I do it with style.
~ Unknown
We all seem to know the dilemma of speaking within authorized boundaries, and yet the urge to orientalize the Oriental and to africanize the African continues to lurk behind many Westerners' wellintended attempts to promote better understanding of cultural difference.
~ Trinh T. Minh-ha
It's different," he objected. "Swimming is not the same as trying to fly while getting blown about and whacked in the face with little balls of water and also lightning — have we talked about the lightning?" "He's coming, too," Kinkajou said to Moon. Turtle sighed in defeat.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Thank you for getting me out of there," the dragon panted as they landed. "I'm Dune." "Six-Claws. What was that all about?" Dune immediately looked at Six-Claws's talons — yes, he had six claws on each of his front feet instead of the usual five; thanks so much for letting everyone know right away, parents — and then tried very hard to pretend that he hadn't.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
She's a little different after two thousand years, that's all," Darkstalker said hurriedly. "This is better, though. She always worried about the future too much. Now she won't worry and we can just be happy and everything will be fine.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Stephen had been bumped into once or twice and had 'By your leave, sir,' and 'Way there – oh parding, sir' roared into his ear often enough, he walked composedly into the cabin, sat on Jack's locker and reflected upon the nature of a community – its reality – its difference from every one of the individuals composing it – communication within it, how effected.
~ Patrick O'Brian
There are people whose whole life is a punishment. Kids who literally don't know the difference between right and wrong, people who 'know not what they do,' to quote the Master.
~ Unknown