Quotes About Difference

his great confidence and trust in me bridged all the difference in age, wealth, and position.

The sign at the door was written with a backward R, to make it look Russian, which caused a minor echo of panic. Was it a reference to Merchenko? No, surely Westwood knew the difference between Russia and Ukraine. But were there Ukrainian-themed bars, for a pedantic tormentor?

difference between intaglio and lithography?

No. My situation is not the same at all. It's like the difference between being alone and being lonely. Two separate, distinct things.

Difference between the men and the boys is the price of their toys?

The implication is that the people of God were lost and that God had to do something—as he had always done—to intervene and set them back on the right track. But there was a difference this time. This was the last time. This was the last chance.

Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.

Martin Hengel said that the only difference between a fundamentalist and a radical liberal is their starting presuppositions.

Martin Hengel said that the only difference between a fundamentalist and a radical liberal is their starting presuppositions. Their methods are the same: they start with where they want to end up and then look at all the evidence selective for their purposes, rather than being open to what the evidence actually reveals.

Remember, only fifty words makes the difference between a rich

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.

We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feelings of causality by noting the correlation. That's why although there is sometimes little difference in ability between a wildly successful person and one who is not as successful, there is usually a big difference in how they are viewed.

But I don't WANT to go among mad people!

What's the difference between an undead and my last boyfriend? One is a soul-sucking beast from hell and the other is an undead.

in a manner befitting your station while at Spence. It's fine to be kind to the lesser girls, but remember that they are not your equals." Station. Lesser girls. Not your equals. It's a laugh, really.

As this suggests, Jamaica was at once brutally divided by racial difference and violence, and in some respects also a cosmopolitan, even tolerant environment.

A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.

God save me from a woman's way of thinking. What the hell kind of logic is that? One has nothing to do with the other." "Maybe not to you, but let's face it, you're plankton, and I'm a higher life form. Details matter to me.

Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.

My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways. . . . Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).

A few pages in Mein Kampf are indeed worth reading, the pages, I mean, that relate to the orator and to the difference between the orator and the writer.

But there is a vital difference between them which Charles Lamb saw so clearly in his defense of the sanity of true genius: "The ... poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed by his subject but he has dominion over it." That is the whole difference: the poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

James and Whitman are unlike not in quality but in kind, and in their very opposition they serve to complement each other. But the difference between James and Dreiser is not of kind, for both men addressed themselves to virtually the same social and moral fact. The difference here is one of quality, and perhaps nothing is more typical of American liberalism than the way it has responded to the respective qualities of the two men.