DIFFERENCE QUOTES III

quotations about differences

We're all water from different rivers
That's why it's so easy to meet
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean
Someday we'll evaporate together

JOHN LENNON

"We're All Water", Some Time in New York City


We should be generous and liberal toward all persons who necessarily differ with us on unsettled questions.

T. L. BROWN

attributed, Day's Collacon


What’s Bagism? It’s like... a tag for what we all do, we’re all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you’re in your little tele clique and they’re in their...ya know? and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don’t communicate. And we all intellectualize about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry... but we’re still all "I’m a rock and roller, he’s a poet" ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we’d say "WE’RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!"

JOHN LENNON

The David Frost Show, Jun. 14, 1969


The difference between two men is usually a woman.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them.

ORHAN PAMUK

Snow


Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Dirty Hands


It seemed ... such nonsense -- inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse


As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

JAMES MADISON

The Federalist, 1787


Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

SHANNON L. ALDER

attributed, It's Not About You