Quotes About Difference

A wanderer with no ideal, no sense of gratitude for his independence, is no more than a beggar! The difference between a beggar and the great wandering priest Saigy? lies inside the heart!

She was only a year or two older than Musashi, but how different they were in their experience of love. Watching him sit so stiffly, restraining his emotions, avoiding her face as though a look at her might blind him, she felt once again like a sheltered maiden experiencing the first pangs of love.

Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....

Finally she cried with rage and at the same time maternal pride, "What happened when I conceived you, an accident, a hiccup, a convulsion, the lights went out, a bulb blew, the basin of water fell off the night table? Certainly there must have been something, if you were born so intolerable, so different from the others.

Volevo dire solo che sei brava a farti voler bene. La differenza tra me e te, da sempre, è che di me la gente ha paura e di te no.

knew I thought differently in Turkish and in English—not because thought and language were the same, but because different languages forced you to think about different things. Turkish

Your hair looks different," Grisha told Varvara. "Oh? I haven't had it cut." He squinted at her. "I think it grew

It could be said that the discovery of ourselves is at the heart of what we call enlightenment, which is to say that that big, bright light at the end of the tunnel is us. The problem is that no one wants to discover that we're no better or no worse than the rest—indeed, to discover that we're no different than the rest—because that's no fun.

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)

A person speaks about his or her level of COMMON SENSE by showing the depth of reverence towards the kind of people whom he or she likes, but the width of his or her true intelligence is gauged correctly and only by one making in others life the real good difference.

An intriguing question is if there is any difference between a palmist and an economist given the fact of the outcome often seen of their forecast and prediction.

Anyone can give any number of advice often nice with the word 'YOU' in own voice; but he who is truly different, positive and wise always shows a constructive action on his words to unearth lies.

Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big and good difference. A person who has no self-interest to do things for others makes a bigger and better difference. But, one who does everything for everyone for the sake of humanity without vested interest makes the biggest real difference for the best sustainability.

There is a big, big difference between 'Looking Beauty' and 'Being Beautiful' because the former is external feature but the latter is internal nature.

There is no difference amongst intelligence, common sense and wisdom, but for own comfort and convenience some people may depict or differentiate them in their definition.

They are not tall women, only they have come out of the ground in open air a little more than others.

In this town of towheaded drunks, [his daughter] would bear the weight of her difference, doled out in murmurs, taunts, and shoves. But now it occurred to Victor that she would suffer more than he ever had because, unlike him, she had been loved, and her punishment would come as a surprise.

Between atheism and superstition, there is this great difference; the latter may authorize some crimes, the former opens the flood-gates to all.

Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal.

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Zij was ziek, en ik was de ziekte. Dat is het verhaal. Andere mensen kunnen zeggen: "Ik ben ziek. Ik moet genezen." Of: "Ik kan niet genezen, hoe graag ik dat ook zou willen." Maar de ziekte kan dat niet. Dat is het verschil tussen het bijvoeglijk en het zelfstandig naamwoord. De ziekte moet ziekte blijven. Ik ben het zelfstandig naamwoord.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.