Differences Quotes

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

~ Margaret Fuller

The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship.

~ Saunsea

To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.

~ Suzy Kassem

Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.

~ Henry Kimsey-House

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

~ James Rozoff

We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.

~ Osho

The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be something of a high-miler, and old-timer, although there are plenty of older ones running. But over the miles, and I think most cyclists will agree with this, you pick up certain feelings about an individual machine that are unique for that one individual machine and no other. A friend who owns a cycle of the same make, model and even same year brought it over for a repair, and when I test rode it afterward it was hard to believe it had come from the same factory years ago. You could see that long ago it had settled into its own kind of feel and ride and sound, completely different from mine. No worse, but different.I suppose you could call that a personality. Each machine has its own, unique personality which probably could be defined as the intuitive sum total of everything you know and feel about it. This personality constantly changes, usually for the worse, but sometimes surprisingly for the better, and it is the personality that is the real object of motorcycle maintenance. The new ones start out as good-looking strangers, and depending on how they are treated, degenerate rapidly into bad-acting grouches or even cripples, or else turn into healthy, good-natured, long-lasting friends.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Human colour is the colour I'm truly interested in, the colour of your humanity. May the size of your heart and the depth of your soul be your currency. welcome aboard my Good Ship. Let us sail to the colourful island of misex identity. You can eat from the cooking pot of mixed culture and bathe in the cool shade of being mixed-race. There is no need for a passport. There are no borders. We are all citizens of the world. Whatever shade you are, bring your light, bring your colour, bring your music and your books, your stories and your histories, and climb aboad. United as a people we are a million majestic colours, together we are a glorious stained-glass window. We are building a cathedral of otherness, brick by brick and book by book. Raise your glass of rum, let's toast to the minorities who are the majority. There's no stopping time, nor the blurring of lines or the blending of shades. With a spirit of hope I leave you now. I drink to our sameness and to our unique differences. This is the twenty-first century and we share this, we live here, in the future. It is a beautiful morning, it is first light on the time of being other, so get out from that shade and feel the warmth of being outside.You tick: Other.

~ Salena Godden

He was a kind of éminence grise, a political leader, in a clandestine movement. Everyone knows there are girls who go for that kind of thing. There are girls who go for Huysmanists, for that matter. I once met a girl -- a pretty, attractive girl -- who told me she fantasized about Jean-François Copé. It took me several days to get over it. Really, with girls today, all bets are off.

~ Michel Houellebecq

People I had never seen before flocked in, their faces showing a longing you never saw for cake. People's eyes lit up for a cupcake, cake seemed to signal celebration. But their eyes got filmy, watery, misty when we handed them a slice of pie. Pie was memory. Nostalgia. Pie made people recall simpler, maybe happier times.

~ Judith Fertig

I roam the streets, silent and still,I look for You, in each and everything.I have come a long way from myself,so away,so long, that I,myself have become a memory.And so i seek Your gaze, to See myself,But what am i ? without Your touch ?How distant You are, yet How close Iam,this place holds a fortune, for my lost self.

~ Syed Murtaza Haroon

Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

~ Steve Goodier

I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it’s over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.

~ Steve Goodier

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

~ Jenni Schaefer

When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst.

~ Frank Jymz

Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation.

~ Audre Lorde

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.

~ Gene Roddenberry

I still remember what my father said There are on the stadium 22 idiots, which are running after ball.. From where did he knew that??He knew it from guarding the stadium, so my question is why we don't watch how a dog catch a ball?But we watch 22 idiots running after the ball??What are the differences??That the dog can't kick the ball, but the humanity can?? - Wow, wow that's a great discovery for a dumb person!

~ Deyth Banger

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

~ Matthew Quick

About Differences: Those who would believe in a higher power by whatever name must also believe that same higher power made all things. On that basis, people of good character will recognize that some people are different from ourselves, in color, gender, speech, opinion, lifestyle, and in other ways. Different is not an evaluation. As I taught my children while they were growing up, Different is only different. Celebrate differences for therein lies the basis for much of what we learn in life.

~ James Osborne

Good or bad, if you’re not “normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

We all come from different paths in life but we can find common ground.

~ Nanette Mathews

Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers.

~ Tennessee Williams

If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all

~ Mohsin Hamid

It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.

~ Patti Digh

It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind of place. Melody felt a gut punch of regret. Her old nose would have fit in here.Look! She pointed at the multicolored car whizzing by. Its black door were from a Mercedes coupe, the white hood from a BMW; the silver trunk was Jaguar, the red convertible top was Lexus, the whitewall tires were Bentley, the sound system was Bose, and the music was classical. A hood ornament from each model dangled from the rear view mirror. Its license plate appropriately read MUTT.That car looks like a moving Benton ad.Or a pileup on Rodeo drive. Candace snapped a picture with her iPhone and e-mailed to her friends back home. They responded instantly with a shot of what they were doing. It must have involved the mall because Candace picked up her pace and began asking anyone under the age of fifty where the cool people hung out.

~ Lisi Harrison

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

~ Cory Booker

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

~ Andrew Young

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

~ Paul Watson

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

~ Marlon Wayans

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

~ Temple Grandin

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

~ Ashraf Barhom

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

~ Stephen Covey

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

~ Ani Difranco

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

~ Paul Martin

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

~ Linda Ellerbee