Quotes About Difference

When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.

Had getting rid of his uneven limp, leg braces, and most of the crookedness in his back made that much difference? Or was the difference in the Barrayarans?

That's not the one you were thinking of? No. There was accusation in her voice. Mine was different

No, I'm not Jewish, she said archly, staring him down, to teach him, to teach him this: Are you? Yes, he said. He studied her eyes. Oh, she said. Not many of us in this part of the world, so I thought I'd ask. Yes. She felt an embarrassed sense of loss, as if something that should have been hers but wasn't had been taken away, legally, by the police.

hope you will allow me to speak as plainly as I can." This was the difference, he thought, between the South and the North. A Southern woman would never ask permission.

The only ones worse off than us is borstal boys. Or those boys that get sent to public school, because if you think about it, them schools are really just posh borstal.

I do not want you to believe any of this because it is all crap, but it is the crap in which the piles of our psuedo-European culture are embedded, so you had better understand it because no one who does not understand the history and taxonomy of crap will ever come to know the difference between crap and pseudocrap and noncrap....

And this town was no different. Even the faces were the same. It was strange, he thought, how little difference there was in people. When one traveled, got around to many towns, one soon realized there were just so many types, and one found them in every town. Names were different, and expressions, but it was like many casts playing the same roles in a drama. The parts remained the same; only the names of the cast had changed.

There is a difference between an idea and ideology.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

But he liked it because it was so different from the coquettish clatter of most of the girls with whom he talked. Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

for you belong to the old set, and I to the new; you will get on the best, but I shall have the liveliest time of it

There is no essential difference between religion and morality except that the one is more intense and passionate than the other.

From the outset, Pierpont's relationship with Jack differed from his own with Junius.

kin, not ancestors. Our main difference from

Una de las cosas buenas que fui descubriendo con los años es que ser raro no es nada raro, contra lo que la palabra parece indicar. De hecho, lo verdaderamente raro es ser normal.

La mayoría de los hombres tienen el dedo anular más largo que el dedo índice, y la mayoría de las mujeres tienen el índice más largo que el anular.

Ahí reside nuestra grandeza: aun conociendo nuestra insignificancia, aspiramos al máximo. Lo que nos humaniza, lo que nos diferencia de los animales, es precisamente esa desfachatada ambición de ser felices. De controlar nuestras vidas y convertirnos en nuestros propios dioses.

I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.

For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.

Abbott says, 'Biggest...difference...between...people...is...quality...of...attention.' And since a person's quality of attention is one of the few things about her that a human can control, then she better damn well do it, say I. Put that together with the Golden Rule in a nutshell, and you've got my philosophy of life. Abbott's too. And you don't need religion for that.

Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive?

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Not to know the difference between a metaphor and a lie is one definition of insanity.