Quotes About Difference

But she can't stay here. The woman needs normal, and Rachel? We aren't it.

In an expanding universe, Spencer had said, order was not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his un-twice-steppable river and so on. So habits were not truly iterative, but pseudoiterative. The pattern of the day might be the same, in other words, but the individual events fulfilling the pattern were always a little bit different. Thus there was both pattern and surprise

And so: change. The inexorable emergence of difference in time. Becoming. One of the fundamental mysteries. Charlie hated it. He liked being; he hated becoming.

if one's physical presence made any difference these days! It was an absurd anachronism, but that's the way people were. Another vestige of the savannah. They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

A compulsion, a life with a goal, how could you tell the difference?

Blah, blah, blah. Demon boy, I can't speak that language. Furthermore, I don't want to pollute my brain by learning it. So it's time for you to learn mine. First lesson-I'm Say-been. I'm oft described as byoo-tee-full and mah-jest'ick.

Never, never make the mistake of thinking you're the only alien on the planet . But that's exactly the way I did feel – different desks, different schedule, halls and halls and halls that all looked the same to me. Everybody else knew their way around. I might as well have been a million light years from home. And lost.

Vi antar att i varje identitets kärna finns något slags djupliggande likhet som binder samman de människor som delar den identiteten. Jag menar att detta inte är sant, och det upprepar jag om och om igen.

You seem hastily made, remarked the Scarecrow, watching Jack's efforts to straighten himself. Not more so than your Majesty, was the frank reply. There is this difference between us, said the Scarecrow, that whereas I will bend, but not break, you will break, but not bend.

Really, King Kaliko, we ought to be friends, we're so much alike in everything but disposition and intelligence.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

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.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.