Differences Quotes

“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

“The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing.
Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't.
The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“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, 300 Questions for a Vibrant Marriage

“Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.”
― H. Norman Wright

“Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel is, it seems to me, a very special and rarefied kind of literary form, and was, for a brief moment only, wide-ranging in its sociocultural influence. For the most part, it has always been an acquired taste and it asks a good deal from its audience. Our great contemporary problem is in separating that which is really serious from that which is either frivolously and fashionably "radical" and that which is a kind of literary analogy to the Letterman show. It's not that there is pop culture around, it's that so few people can see the difference between it and high culture, if you will. Morton Feldman is not Stephen Sondheim. The latter is a wonderful what-he-is, but he is not what-he-is-not. To pretend that he is is to insult Feldman and embarrass Sondheim, to enact a process of homogenization that is something like pretending that David Mamet, say, breathes the same air as Samuel Beckett. People used to understand that there is, at any given time, a handful of superb writers or painters or whatever--and then there are all the rest. Nothing wrong with that. But it now makes people very uncomfortable, very edgy, as if the very idea of a Matisse or a Charles Ives or a Thelonious Monk is an affront to the notion of "ain't everything just great!" We have the spectacle of perfectly nice, respectable, harmless writers, etc., being accorded the status of important artists...Essentially the serious novelist should do what s/he can do and simply forgo the idea of a substantial audience.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino

“Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.”
― Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life

“We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.”
― Elizabeth Blake, GreenBean: True Blue Family

“...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.”
― Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges

“This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.”
― Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

“Ir divu veidu cilvēki.
Ir tie, kas dzīvo, spēlē un mirst.

Un tie, kas nekad nedara neko citu, kā vien turas līdzsvarā uz dzīves smailes.

Ir aktieri.
Un ir virves dejotāji.”
― Maxence Fermine