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Quotes About Difference

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.
~ Sarah Dessen
It won't change anything, I replied. And if I was any other girl, I would have gotten over it by now anyway. ... What? he replied. You're special, Emaline. You're not just any other girl.
~ Sarah Dessen
So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different. But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.
~ Sarah Dessen
So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different.
~ Sarah Dessen
This made me smile, reminding me of how much I really liked my brother. Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
~ Sarah Dessen
Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches? " "They can," he said as I cranked the engine. "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference.
~ Sarah Dessen
Maybe Dillon Samreen will decide to pick on this new kid with the weird name and the funny accent instead of me.
~ Sarah Weeks
This rest and well-being were only a momentary difference in the strange lining or variable silk between life and void.
~ Saul Bellow
The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.
~ Scott Adams
There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you're not in Kansas anymore. By
~ Scott Turow
Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Her parents didn't understand that braille meant big clunky books that marked you as different, while audiobooks live invisibly on your phone and text-to-speech gave you the whole damn internet.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Perhaps one day they will add about you as their leader, "And you made a difference" That is the true reward of Leadership
~ John Adair
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?
~ John Adams
I certainly wish that all men could be Free, while you, I suppose, do not.
~ John Alexander Logan
The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.
~ John Barth
A pound of feathers is heavier than one of gold by 22 percent, because plumage and precious metals in the United States are weighed according to different pounds. With
~ John Bemelmans Marciano
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
~ John Boehner
to have beliefs different from ours.
~ John Brockman
they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different with each the absence of love is the same
~ John Cage
It is at this point that the gospel differs most from philosophy, since it teaches that the salvation of men is through the free remission of sins. It
~ John Calvin
This far, indeed, we differ from each other, in that everyone appropriates to himself some peculiar error; but we are all alike in this, that we substitute monstrous fictions for the one living and true God—
~ John Calvin
There is, as we shall see, a real and precise difference between the number zero and the concept of a set that posesses no members - the null, or empty set. Indeed, the second idea, pointless as it sounds, turns out to be by far the most fruitful of the two. From it, all of the rest of mathematics can be created step by step.
~ John D. Barrow
Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.
~ Diogenes Laertius