Quotes About Difference

Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn't think he's you. In pain, we get very clear about not being God.

There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew a kid with green skin would just be too much.

There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that kid with green skin would just be too much.

There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that a kid with green skin would just be too much.

The purpose of depots like this one is to allow contact between alien species without direct contact. Early on, direct contacts were tried many times, by many different species, in many different ways. It almost always went badly. With few exceptions, alien species are too different from each other to allow constructive interaction. At best the efforts were extremely discomforting to one or both of the contactees. At worst, one or both found the other genuinely repugnant in some way.

An "A" had fallen off the sign over the bar's door, so it now said "Ple sure Palace," but it didn't make any difference, because everybody who was nobody called it Smackie's.

Birkmann waved that away. I'm not religious. Going to church - it's a magic show, in my opinion. Don't tell the Chamber of Commerce I said that. I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about God, Virgil said. I'm a Lutheran minister's kid, and, believe me, there's a difference between a religion and God. I sorta cut out the middleman.

Pacific time was two hours ahead of Central time

This is my first time working with a human," Werd said, to Wilson. "How's it going so far?" Wilson asked. "Not bad," Werd said. "You're kind of ugly, though." "I get that a lot," Wilson said. "I bet you do," Werd said. "I won't hold it against you." "Thanks," Wilson said. "But if you smell, I'm pushing you out an airlock," Werd said.

That's a distinction that's going to make a lot of difference to the ninety percent of humanity that doesn't know the difference between astrology and astronomy

Then: "What time is it in Arizona?" "It's two hours behind here, so about eight thirty," I said. "Maybe. Arizona is weird about time zones.

Isn't that weird?" I said. "All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we're all different, but we all drink coffee.

If every single man and woman, child and baby, acts and conducts itself in a known pattern and breaks no walls and differs with no one and experiments in no way and is not sick and does not endanger the ease and peace of mind or steady unbroken flow of the town, then that unit can disappear and never be heard of.

I guess the difference is that dampness comes down but dankness rises up out of rot and fermentation.

Woman can change better'n man, Ma said soothingly. Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.

Think you've got knocker fever. Come in to the inn tonight and get it cured up." "Maybe that's it," said Adam. "But I never took much satisfaction in a whore." "It's all the same," Charles said. "You shut your eyes and you can't tell the difference.

A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms sutlers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them.

There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

She wins all arguments by the use of vehemence and the conviction that a difference of opinion is a personal affront.

He was an arithmetician rather than a mathematician. None of the humor, the music, or the mysticism of higher mathematics ever entered his head. Men might vary in height or weight or color, just as 6 is different from 8, but there was little other difference.

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

Scrooge is no Marley, and Marley is no Scrooge, and their partnership is the better for it.

If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.