Quotes About Difference

It takes—I don't know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?" "There's a name for that," she says. "It's called depression.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

There is a real magic in enthuiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

In either case, Allah's mercy exists, though for non-Muslims unreached by the message, it is a question of divine amnesty for their ignorance, not a confirmation of their religions validity. It is worth knowing the difference between these two things, for one's eternal fate depends on it.

Gerçekte, büyük bir ya? fark?m?z yok; ben de okuyup yazm?? bir ki?i say?l?r?m. Ne var ki, insanlar aras?ndaki fark, böyle basit ölçülerle de?erlendirilemez. Bunu biliyorum.

Ben de hepinizden farkl? bir solucand?m, kim bilir? ?imdi yar?s? ezilmi?, yerde yatt??? için belli olmuyor.

She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.

Human beings fear difference," Lilith had told him once. "Oankali crave difference. Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status. Oankali seek difference and collect it. They need it to keep themselves from stagnation and overspecialization

What is it?" she asked. "Flesh. More like mine than like yours. Different from mine, too, though. It's … the ship." "You're kidding. Your ship is alive?

We dull your natural fear of strangers and of difference. We keep you from injuring or killing us or yourselves.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

There were still some Humans who insisted on seeing the ooloi as some kind of male-female combination, but the ooloi were no such thing. They were themselves—a different sex altogether. So

Trade means change. Bodies change. Ways of living must change. Did you think your children would only look different?

Joseph sighed. "I don't understand why the sight of you should scare me so," Joseph said. He did not sound frightened. "You don't look that threatening. Just … very different." "Different is threatening to most species," Nikanj answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you. That was true to your animal ancestors and your nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you.

Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration differs from that of the Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere. In Western houses we are often confronted with what appears to us useless reiteration. We find it trying to talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back. We wonder which is real, he of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be fraud.

Awe and respect are two different things.

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

In Master Shibayama Zenkei's Rinzai Zen no Seikaku,72 the styles of the Soto sect and the Rinzai sect are respectively described as honkaku (original awakening) and shikaku (primal awakening). He writes, "It may be said that, as similar as they are, they are different. Rinzai Zen principally stresses discipline for enlightenment, whereas Soto Zen is principally concerned with discipline for descent from the height of enlightenment.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.