Differ Quotes

305 quotes by 267 authors

We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success… — Maya Angelou
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was? — Cormac McCarthy
Minds differ still more than faces. — Voltaire
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem
That was excellently observedâ€™, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I… — Jonathan Swift
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,… — P.J. O'Rourke
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. — Sarah Dessen
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary… — Christopher Hitchens
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it… — Christopher Hitchens
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. — Benjamin Franklin
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies… — Richard Dawkins
The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease… — Emily Dickinson
I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura.… — Eoin Colfer
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to… — Rumi
I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion. — China Mieville

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