Quotes About Difference

As for its original meaning in the evolution of us, I no longer know if it is true. As we have seen, in technology, in sex, in fashion, we are different from other animals. But the implication that the differences between us and them are determined by our relative position on a line is questionable.

It is far easier to sell the case for occupation and enslavement if you are persuaded that the indigenous people are different, have different origins, and are qualitatively inferior to colonists.

The depth of a fall is always measured by the difference between the level of the original position from which a body has fallen and that in which it is now found. The

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

The retreat into sameness—assimilation for those who can manage it—is the most passive and debilitating of responses to political repression, economic insecurity, and a renewed open season on difference.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.

I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

Neymar is not that old but he's not my age. Paul Pogba is two years older than me and Paulo Dybala I think is one year older than me.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, 'Well, Mormons and Christians all believe the same things,' my response is, 'If that's true, why are they always on my front doorstep trying to convert me?'

'Perception' was a different show than 'Will & Grace'. 'Will & Grace' was obviously a different show than anything I'd done before.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

From the first time I swung a PXG club I have wanted to add them to my bag. They feel incredible and the performance really makes a difference.

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.")

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

The ass and his driver do not think alike.

In the world the theater is worship—in Christendom the churches are. Is there a difference?[1] —Søren Kierkegaard

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.