Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode–a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

I think I’ve learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can’t control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I’ll have more favor in the other...

Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?

Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document,...

If you hate difference, you’ll be bored to death.

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don’t have to.

I don’t ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, ‘The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your...

In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far bigger than all of that. We are human. We are destined to grow and learn...

There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another...

I just want to die knowing that I’ve made a difference in the world… or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.

They laughed at him, but they didn’t know, they didn’t know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he’d see somebody different, somebody to give his things to,...

I don’t see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn’t matter.

For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there due to some quirk of fate...

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives.

Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: “To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

There’s a thin line between an uncertain ‘Yes’ and a certain ‘No’ known as ‘lame indecisiveness’.

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

You are making a difference in Life. Whether or not you realize it, every action, every re-action, or every non-action impacts Life. The question to ask yourself is not whether you are making a difference,...

If you are waiting to gain power to do something; then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.

I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn’t true. Not entirely.Difference is slippery.

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street,...

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we’re doing something that makes a difference. I believe we’re doing that in the Justice Department.

The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also – and this is the awesome part – now there are fans, too!

A smile touches my lips when I remember both the memory of you entering my life and the memory of you leaving my life.

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics – the dark,...

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you’re working with, when you develop a relationship.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me – I never retreat.

The difference between greater people and greatest people is the “est” which stands for “extra mile”. Extra steps give Extraordinary results; Extraordinary people do Extra things.

by adding together these three differences – between what we have and what we’d like to have, what we have now and the best of what we’ve had in the past, and what we have...

Lonely and Alone: There’s a difference.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

But sometimes it’s the smallest things that end up making the biggest difference.” Indy reached out and clasped Peter’s arm. “And you’re not alone. No matter what happens, Peter, we so this together. And we...

Teaching and learning religious plurality often ends up privileging religious texts over practice and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts.

It ain’t about your good or bad intentions, you just look so different.

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If...

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the...

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not...

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

The difference between where you are now and where you will get to later defines your range of work which you have to be responsible for.

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn’t want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat...

Academic degrees can never buy you decency and wisdom. Both are heavenly gifts.