Quotes About Difference

I think the greatest difference between China and the West, which can never be made up, is that the Chinese are fond of antiquity, but neglect the present [whereas] Westerners are struggling in the present in order to supersede the past.

As Pascal observed, when God addresses our human hearts, there is always enough light for those who desire to see, yet enough obscurity for those who do not wish to see. What makes the difference is the heart.

Extending discipline for the minority to everyone else at the same time seems particularly cruel. As I grow older, I have begun to understand more and more how ethics taught in school and public mores are two different things. Those who insist on keeping ethics in school look like fools. People think they're eccentric. They'll never succeed, they'll always be penniless.

Ainda que de formas diferentes, nós dois éramos pessoas perdidas e absolutamente isoladas das atividades humanas. A diferença básica entre nós é que ele agia sem consciência de sua farsa e, sobretudo, sem perceber quanto havia de trágico em sua farsa.

A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that's the case, let me explain that the person's vote does make a difference.

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men by a thick wall through which no sound could penetrate, then all understanding of the efforts of genius would be denied to ordinary men, and their works would fail to make any impression on them. All hopes of progress depend on this being untrue. And it is untrue. The difference between men of genius and the others is quantitative not qualitative, of degree not of kind.

The points of difference that matter are the shape and appearance of the leaves – the depth of the indentations, the appearance of the veins – the hairiness of the shoot tips, the shape and tightness or looseness of the bunches, the

Mi a különbség édesapám és az Isten közt? A különbség jól látható: Isten mindenütt ott van, ezzel szemben édesapám is mindenütt ott van, csak itt nincs.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.

But where of the beginner it's only a move, for the master it becomes the first step in a long sequence. It's like the diference between two apparently identical musical notes that might being a nursery rhyme or a symphony.

I had to kill or be killed... It was the only way I could survive... But I never enjoyed it like YOU do. Yes, my EYE is different from yours... But never forget... I'm also human.

Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. "Why do people want to adopt another culture?" she asks as she summarizes her journey into teaching and into life. "Because there's something in their own they don't like, that doesn't name them."5

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement. "Why should he be?" Kazul said. "Well, you're a dragon," Cimorene answered, a little taken aback. "What difference does that make to a cat?

He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement. "Why should he be?" Kazul said. "Well, you're a dragon," Cimorene answered, a little taken aback. "What difference does that make to a cat?

Protection in committed relationships is different from protection in dating. The battle cry is no longer "to the rescue" or "I'll fix this for you." The key now is maintenance, empowerment, assistance, and friendship

Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?

This is an introduction for those who desire an intuitive grasp of Derridean "thought" that makes a difference, that gains traction in one's life. Writing is the central concept for Derrida. This writing, however, must be understood as inscription, the line that at once limits and defines, as boundedness. Writing is also a heuristic device in the service of what I will call constitutive difference.

Di solito vogliono che tu tenga la bocca chiusa, a volte pretendono che gridi, e si aspettano che tu sappia la differenza. Era questo che trovava buffo.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...