#differ

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#different #eyes #face #human #influence

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ↗

— Alan Turing

#condition #differential #equation #religion #science

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#born #country #difference #english #even

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#between #definitely #difference #feel #huge

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ↗

— William James

#act #difference #does #makes #you

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change. ↗

— Louise Glück

#men-and-women #parents #relationships #change

If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ? ↗

— Matthew Goldfinger

#differ #quirky-characters #change

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar. ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

#human-nature #rationality #society #change

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#making-a-difference #change

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#apart #between #cannot #defined #differ