Despite Our Differences Quotes

#1. My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

Joy Harjo

#2. I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.

Patty Murray

#3. We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

Jared Polis

#4. Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

Edmund Bourne

#5. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.

Richard M. Nixon

#7. That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things ...

Rob Bell

#8. Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

Sarah Dessen

#9. Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.

Marco Rubio

#10. i didn't plan on falling in love with you, and i doubt you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. we fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

Stephen King

#12. Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.

Ray Bourhis

#13. They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

Dan Brown

#15. I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.

Sarah Ruhl

#16. More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

Barack Obama

#17. Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

Ahmed Zewail

#18. Despite all differences of class or ideology, mentally, emotionally, we all have the same basic nature.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. Perhaps it's just that people, wherever they live on the globe, somehow share the same visions or fantasies. It's in our nature, wired into the hard drive, so to speak. Despite all the differences, sooner or later, we still come up with the same answers. - Harry Hole

Jo Nesbo

#20. Despite their difference, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny.

Sarra Manning

#21. There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

Maureen McCormick

#23. Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

Ken Wahl

#24. The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom.

Marcus Buckingham

#25. Despite occasional policy differences between us, I have long respected Jim Jeffords' integrity, and his conscientious service to his constituents and to the nation.

John McCain

#26. But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

Ken Mehlman

#27. We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Dalai Lama

#28. Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

Hideki Tojo

#29. Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

Kate Forsyth

#30. I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

Howard Schultz

#31. Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

Dalai Lama

#32. I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

Taye Diggs

#33. In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

Delia Ephron

#34. Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Richard Land

#35. She knew exactly what he meant. Despite their differences, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny. An out-of-step Fred and Ginger. Vaughn was just as fucked up as she was - he was just so much better at hiding it.

Sarra Manning

#36. I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings ...

Anna Quindlen

#37. On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.

Adele Scheele

#38. Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

Norman Lamm

#39. The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.

Li Zhaoxing

#40. Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work.

Cris Mazza

#41. Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. Minds join together to create new technologies, on its own against threats from the outside, that civilization crumbles.

Becky Chambers