Different Quotes - page 5

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. (Edmund Burke)
We are all different - but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt - and survive. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. View quote
Stephen Hawking
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. View quote
John Ruskin
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. View quote
John Ruskin
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. View quote
Margaret Mead
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world. View quote
Margaret Mead
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
We're frightened of what makes us different. View quote
Anne Rice
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. View quote
Gary Becker
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
On the other hand, you have different fingers. View quote
Steven Wright
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak. View quote
David Boreanaz
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. View quote
Morarji Desai
Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding. View quote
Willa Cather
It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me. View quote
Ani DiFranco
When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. (Jodi Picoult)
all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. View quote
Roald Dahl