Quotes about difference
differences people peaceful
Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable. Nelson Mandela
differences community world
Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.
differences hands making-a-difference
We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.
differences broken people
I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves. Nelly Furtado
differences racism age
I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about. Nia Long
differences trying movement
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back. Noam Chomsky
differences issues environmental
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.
differences making-a-difference feels
I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it. Joe Dante
differences waiting next
But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail. Jodi Picoult
differences convincing-yourself unhappy
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.
differences people like-you
There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.
differences odds people
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
differences people forever
The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.
differences mind common
Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it. Ken Blanchard
differences desire problem
A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.
differences vision making-a-difference
Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
differences kind stomach
I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't." Kristen Stewart
differences innovation making-a-difference
I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
differences important significant
There is a difference between who is important and who is significant. Kinky Friedman
differences people making-a-difference
People have power to make a difference in their lives. Oprah Winfrey
differences people together
The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
differences people interesting
This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.
differences glasses actors
The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible. Olivia Thirlby
differences decision difficult
I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse. Oliver North
differences race language
Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk. Margaret Atwood
differences gains hacking
I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization. Kevin Mitnick
differences satisfaction made
That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference? Ken Paulson
differences evoke reader
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
differences space null
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. Larry Wall
differences giving democracy
[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred. L. Neil Smith
differences feet government
The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote. P. J. O'Rourke
differences independence being-free
Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.
differences needs world
If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.