Quite Different Quotes

137 Quite Different quotes by 126 unique authors

So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the… — Ted Dekker
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous,… — Bertrand Russell
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive… — Susan Sontag
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant. — Oscar Wilde
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside… — A A Milne
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,… — Terry Pratchett
Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we… — Simone Weil
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark… — J M Coetzee
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning. — George Sand
Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and… — John Marsden
Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us… — Gilles Deleuze
The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready… — Mitch Albom
he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. — Margaret Atwood
In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns… — Paul Auster
The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.' The handkerchief paused.… — Franny Billingsley
She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different. — Laini Taylor
A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it… — Stephen Fry
So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different… — Cornelia Funke
We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of… — Vincent Van Gogh
It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls,… — Hilary Mantel
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who… — Alison Bechdel
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education… — Winston Churchill
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is… — Paul Johnson

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