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What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do. – Anthony Robbins	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.' – Alexis Sayle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. – George Sheehan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you. – Steve Tesich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. – Lewis Thomas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present. – Maitri Upanishads	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. – Bernard De Voto	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Have you even been in love Horrible, isn't it It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. – Rose Walker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country. – Paul Weyrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand. – Oprah Winfrey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on How could we ever get up off our knees How could we ever recover from the wonder of it – Jeanette Winterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self – Christa Wolf	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen. – Rabbi David Wolpe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. – Frank Zappa	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. – John Ashcroft	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. – Samuel McChord Crothers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character. – Marie Leneru	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. – George S. Patton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Madeline Stark	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum. – Jeffrey Vlaming	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everyone has a different finger print.... Not to distinguish onself , but to give us an equal opportunity to leave a mark on the world. – Siddharth Astir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
many believe that to treat people equally is the fairest way of working. To treat people who are different equally may be the unfairest thing of all. – Geoff Ballard	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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