Quotes about difference
differences knowing ethics
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. Potter Stewart
differences violence opponents
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them. Nelson Mandela
differences people peaceful
Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.
differences community world
Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.
differences hands making-a-difference
We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.
differences broken people
I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves. Nelly Furtado
differences racism age
I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about. Nia Long
differences trying movement
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back. Noam Chomsky
differences issues environmental
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.
differences doe surprise
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised. Gertrude Stein
differences mountain saint
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
differences people hard-life
Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just stand there and talk. But there is a difference between people who can do it well and people who can't. Jim Jefferies
differences inattention concentration
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. Jiddu Krishnamurti
differences america world
I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected. Jeremy Paxman
differences one-day thrill
As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed. Glenn Close
differences listening heard
There is a difference between being listened to and being heard. Gillian Anderson
differences listening hearing
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
differences
The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something. Harry Styles
differences long mutation
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today. Fred Hoyle
differences atmosphere world
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. Fred Rogers
differences vermont enormous
Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.
differences space world
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
differences training stranger
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. Frank Herbert
differences hitting way
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
differences water presidential
International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone. George H. W. Bush
differences arms chins
Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference. Jim Butcher
differences government color
I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin. Jesse Ventura
differences people made
The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference. Jazmine Sullivan
differences sells highest
I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. Klaus Kinski
differences impact giving
We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference Myles Munroe
differences ifs
If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all. Mohsin Hamid
differences people why-not
What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not? Milton Friedman
differences people getting-older
Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.