Top 100 Quotes About Differences
#1. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
#2. The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences.
Parker J. Palmer
#3. I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win.
Jennifer Granholm
#4. Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
Edgar Allan Poe
#5. Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
#6. Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces it in all things that are capable of agreement and differences in any way at all, whether substantially or accidentally.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#7. Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
Jean Monnet
#8. One thing Hal had learned was that they had to try to keep moving forward, keep trying to communicate and understand their differences. Pretending they didn't exist wasn't the answer.
Labbe, Marguerite
#9. I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.
Debbie Harry
#10. Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.
Jay McInerney
#11. A good team was simply a group of very disparate athletes who assembled each day from radically different lives and - with luck - for one shared moment put aside their differences, their dislikes, their egos and their rivalries, harnessing their energies towards a common goal.
David Halberstam
#12. Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
Stockwell Day
#13. The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him. It seemed to leave him with a lasting sense that life was more complicated in practice than in theory - and that this was a good thing.
Yuval Levin
#14. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#15. Differences don't necessarily mean conflict, diversity is beautiful!
Sahar El-Nadi
#16. The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
P. J. O'Rourke
#17. I said, "Mr. President, if there are policies of yours with which I disagree, they will be addressed. From time to time you may not like what I say, or how or where I say it. I hope we can work through our differences when those occasions arise." Nixon
Vernon Jordan
#18. 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
#19. What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary
Simon Baron-Cohen
#20. I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.
Sue Monk Kidd
#21. It's hard to be different," Scarborough said. "And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.
Bill Konigsberg
#22. What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
Estelle Ramey
#23. I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen, but we'd have to wait and see. I would love to explore Middle Earth again with Peter.
Karl Urban
#24. I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.
Mohammed Morsi
#25. Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.
William Shakespeare
#26. The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen.
Will Self
#27. Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#28. Psychopaths ... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.
Elmore Leonard
#29. Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
John D. MacDonald
#30. History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile Selassie
#31. For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness ... perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.
Kevyn Aucoin
#32. It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.
Chali 2na
#33. There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.
Warren Farrell
#34. Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
Sebastian Stan
#35. Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
Vladimir Nabokov
#36. Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
Huston Smith
#37. Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.
Dan Mathews
#39. I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.
Joshua Radin
#40. The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when the war began were erased by its end. The victors had been morally conquered by the enemy.
David McReynolds
#41. In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.
Jacques Derrida
#42. The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.
Lorna Byrne
#43. We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.
Mary Parker Follett
#44. We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.
Karl Jaspers
#45. Respecting differences is very difficult.
Rod Steiger
#46. What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??
What are the differences?
Deyth Banger
#47. The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.
Matt Damon
#48. A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.
Daniel Kahneman
#49. Being able to use the word "geek" has helped me a lot to define myself, but not as a mold for me to fit myself into, as a template to help accentuate my differences.
Jon Katz
#50. I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
Maya Angelou
#51. If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
Francis Bacon
#52. One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.
Manish Dayal
#53. You need to form a grand coalition, and you need to put your ideological differences aside and work together to focus on people's basic needs. You can't eat sharia.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#54. Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
Fabiola Gianotti
#55. When the purpose of clearly exposing the differences between the Aryan and the Tamil culture, civilization, conduct and creed Thirukkural was written. I am of that firm view.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#56. In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.
Immanuel Kant
#57. It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.
Richard P. Feynman
#58. Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#59. 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
#60. Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
Barack Obama
#61. The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#62. In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.
Sheena Iyengar
#64. Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
Laurel Clark
#65. As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
Joseph Stowell
#66. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.
Suzy Kassem
#67. A world without walls is the only sustainable world ... If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.
William J. Clinton
#68. As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne
#69. You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#70. Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.
Dan Quayle
#71. Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differences and disagreements too.
Robin Sacredfire
#72. The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.
Larry Gelbart
#73. In the context of marriage, if we do not feel loved, our differences are magnified. We come to view each other as a threat to our happiness. We fight for self-worth and significance, and marriage becomes a battlefield rather than a haven.
Gary Chapman
#74. I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say."
Peter Blegvad
#75. I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.
John Edwards
#76. It is my hope that I can stand before you in two years and report back that our side, as well as the president's, found within us the ability to set differences aside, to provide relief to so many millions of Americans who simply want their life to work again.
Eric Cantor
#77. 'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.
Darren Star
#78. Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
Margaret Mead
#79. Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.
Condoleezza Rice
#80. We must grow beyond it! Why reinforce our differences, and keep ancient laws, and never know the joy of breaking bread with our neighbors?
Helene Wecker
#81. The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
Tennessee Williams
#82. It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
Jefferson Davis
#83. It is bizarre to treat all differences as oppositions,
Kate Chopin
#84. There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.
Gerald Fischbach
#85. The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
Teresa De Lauretis
#86. The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict
#87. 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
#88. Humanity can do better ... if we put our differences a side and diligently work together for the good of all mankind. What a powerful difference we could make.
Timothy Pina
#89. The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Anne Tyler
#90. I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.
Montel Williams
#91. Your differences are what make you unique. They're what make you special. You have nothing in common with these ignorant retches who thrive on superstition and fear. You were meant for greatness.
Ellen Oh
#92. I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.
Nick Jonas
#93. Sleep erases all differences: then and now; dead and living. I am past hunger, past vanity, past caring. This morning I caught sight of my face in the bathroom mirror. I am paperskinned, gauned, yellow, ring-eyed, hait matted. I look dead. I want nothing.
Audrey Niffenegger
#94. A coat of paint and a quote of words both make cosmetic differences.
Amit Abraham
#95. In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.
Cory Booker
#96. Well, I was done hiding, hating, or apologizing for the parts of me I hadn't chosen and couldn't change. If some people had a problem with my differences, that was just too fucking bad for them.
Jeaniene Frost
#97. There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.
Richard MacDonald
#98. Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.
Michael John Carley
#99. Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
Jodi Picoult
#100. Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.
James Madison
