100+ Different Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

topic: Party, Different, Leftists

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different

- Ahmed Yassin

topic: Opportunity, Political, Different

What people consider precious is different for everybody.

- Ai Yazawa

source: "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, (2000 - ).

topic: People, Different

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...

- Ai Yazawa

source: "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.

topic: Dream, Two, Different, Two Different Things

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

- Ai Yazawa

topic: Lonely, Two, Different, Two Different Things

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

- Aime Cesaire

topic: Ideas, Different, Rich, Coexist, Peaceful Coexistence

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

topic: India, Different, Might, Hindi, Bombay

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

- Ajay Devgan

topic: Different, Audience

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

- Akio Morita

topic: Different, Weapons, Break

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

- Akio Morita

topic: Attitude, Different

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Different, Arise

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

- Al Kaline

topic: Player, League, Different

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

- Al Pacino

topic: Dream, Vision, Different

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

- Alain de Botton

source: Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

topic: Differences, Despair, Different, Hope And Despair

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Thinking, Different, Littles

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

- Alain Prost

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Different, Different Mentality

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

- Alan Alda

topic: Successful, Animal, Different, Social Awareness

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Home, People, Different

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Different, Disguise

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Different, Conformity, Easy, Non Conformity

Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.

- Alan I. Leshner

topic: People, Different, Fields

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

- Alan Kay

topic: Years, Apples, Different

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

- Alan Lightman

topic: Book, Creative, Different, Individual Life

When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

- Alan Moore

topic: Book, Dark, Different

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

- Alan Moore

topic: Mind, Different, Body

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

- Alan Parker

topic: Different, Film, Made

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

- Alan Parker

topic: Directors, Different, Filmmaker

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Wine, Different, Definitions

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

- Alan Rickman

source: "Alan Rickman Interview NOBEL SON" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2008.

topic: Mean, Energy, Different

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

- Alan Watts

topic: Secret, Together, Different

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Challenges, Different, Phases, Different Kinds, Phases Of Life

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,

- Alasdair MacIntyre

topic: Waiting, Different, Godot, St Benedict

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Different, Want, Results

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Different, Definitions, Action

If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Different, Outcomes

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Special, Energy, Different, Maxwell, Theories Of Relativity

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Different, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Freedom

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

- Alec Baldwin

topic: Acting, Different, Theater, Acting In Movies

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.

- Alec Soth

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Photography, Different, Journalism, Different Interpretations

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

topic: Space, Different, World, Different Worlds, Different Times

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

topic: Differences, One Day, Different, Normality

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

- Aleksa Palladino

source: "Exitmusic’s Passage Is No Secret". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2012.

topic: Writing, Acting, Different

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Book, Differences, Different

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

- Aleksey Igudesman

source: "Sunday Conversation: Igudesman & Joo". Interview with Irene Lacher, articles.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

topic: Different, Way, Audience

Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

- Alessandra Ambrosio

source: "Alessandra Ambrosio's Stay-Healthy Secrets" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. May 19, 2014.

topic: Different, Being The Best, Genetics, Metabolism

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

- Alex Flinn

topic: Years, Law, Different, Different Angles

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

- Alex Garland

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Ideas, Different

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

- Alex Kapranos

topic: Writing, Criticism, Different

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

- Alex Katz

source: Gail Levin, Dewey F. Mosby, Alex Katz, Picker Gallery (1984). “Alex Katz, process and development: small paintings from the collection of Paul J. Schupf '58”

topic: Different, Way, Paint

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

- Alex Winter

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Different, World, Way

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, Paris, Different, Paris Fashion, Fashion Week

The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Long, Patriotism, Different, Militia

With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant, and learned classes in legislative assembly]. Will not the man of the learned profession, who will feel a neutrality to the rivalships between the different branches of industry, be likely to prove an impartial arbiter between them, ready to promote either, so far as it shall appear to him conducive to the general interests of society?

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Men, Class, Different

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

- Alexander Lebed

topic: Grandchildren, Men, Different

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

- Alexander Pope

topic: Dresses, Different, Wonder

One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.

- Alexander Rodchenko

topic: Views, Keys, Different

To-day is always different from yesterday.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Yesterday, Different

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

- Alexander Wang

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Different, Tables, Kind

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

- Alexandra Daddario

topic: Character, Opportunity, Different

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

- Alexei Sayle

topic: America, President, Different, Deranged, Drapes

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

- Alexei Sayle

topic: Stupid, President, Different, Psychopathic, Political Humor

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

- Alexis Herman

topic: Issues, Different, Action, Raising Awareness, Engaging

And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

- Alfre Woodard

topic: Believe, People, Different, Different Faiths

Everything can always be different!

- Alfred Adler

topic: Different

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

- Alfred Doblin

topic: Listening, Different, Unhappiness, Listening To Others, Walking Alone

Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Thinking, Mind, Different

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Men, Enemy, Different

I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

- Alfred Rosenberg

source: "Nuremberg Diary". Book by by G. M. Gilbert, p. 120, 1995.

topic: Race, Different, Culture

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: True Friend, Soul, Different

What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.

- Ali Khamenei

topic: Bullying, Different, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo

I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.

- Ali Larter

source: "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

topic: Careers, Different, Lucky

I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basisâ€”a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.

- Ali Vincent

topic: Distance, Goal, Different, Different Things

What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

- Alia Bhatt

topic: Father, Mad, Different

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Play, Different, Albums

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

- Alice Paul

topic: Different, World, Might, World Affairs

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

- Alice Sebold

topic: Medicine, Different, Poison

One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

- Alice Thomas Ellis

source: Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

topic: Running, People, Different

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

- Alice Waters

topic: Beautiful, Different, Way

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

- Alison Jackson

topic: Real, Different, Looks

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

- Alistair Cooke

topic: Identity, Trying, Different, Starlets

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

- Allan Gurganus

topic: Different, Kind, Different Kinds

We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

- Allan Pease

source: Allan Pease, Barbara Pease (2004). “Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It”, p.9, Harmony

topic: Priorities, Brain, Different, Different Values

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

- Allegra Versace

source: Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

topic: Acting, Different, Persons

He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.

- Ally Carter

topic: Hate, Boys, Different

I just like to do different parts.

- Ally Walker

topic: Different

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

- Aloe Blacc

source: "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

topic: Hip Hop, Style, Different

Every person is so different and I dont think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then youre pretty lucky.

- Amanda Bynes

topic: Thinking, Different, Lucky

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

- Amanda Bynes

topic: Class, People, Different

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

- Amanda Seyfried

topic: School, Different, Four

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.

- Amar Bose

topic: Different, Levels, Excitement

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

- Amber Heard

topic: Feminist, Different, Done, Gloria

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

- Amby Burfoot

topic: Running, Trying, Different, Different Paths, Finish Line

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

- Amin Maalouf

topic: Loyalty, Choices, Different, Difficult Choices

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

- Amiri Baraka

topic: Two, Different, World, Popular Music

Truth is one, though the sages know it as many . God is one, though different religions approach Him differently Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus or any other form of God that you believe in . Our paths may be different. Our destination is the same.

- Amish Tripathi

topic: Jesus, Believe, Different, Shiva, Vishnu

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

- Amy Adams

topic: Challenges, Different, Lucky, Different Genres

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

- Amy Harmon

source: FaceBook post by Amy Harmon from Sep 22, 2014

topic: Doors, Color, Different, Different Colors, Handcuffs

But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.

- Amy Harmon

topic: Regret, Choices, Different

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

- Amy Lee

topic: School, Different, Realization, Instrumentation

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

- Amy Ray

topic: Girl, Different, Band, Hanging Around, Indigo

We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

- Amy Schumer

topic: Funny, Kids, Different

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

- Amy Tan

source: Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press

topic: Reality, Two, Different

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Play, Different, Instruments

I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

- Ana Gasteyer

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Fashion, Cameras, Different

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

- Ana Gasteyer

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Different, Watches, Actors, Movie Actors

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

- Anais Nin

source: Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

topic: Love, Mean, Different

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

- Anais Nin

topic: People, Different, Reserves

He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Men, Different, Path

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Hero, People, Different

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

- Andrea Gibson

source: Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.158, Penguin

topic: Keys, Soldier, Different

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Different, Forget, Breathe

The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look even better. Always study a three - dimensional subject with one eye closed.

- Andreas Feininger

topic: Eye, First Impression, Different, Different Angles

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

- Andrei Tarkovsky

source: "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 177), 1986.

topic: Book, People, Different, Different Books

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

- Andrej Pejic

topic: Fashion, Being Yourself, Different

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

- Andres Iniesta

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Football, People, Different

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

- Andrew Bird

source: Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

topic: Singing, Sound, Different

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Player, People, Different

The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.

- Andrew Dickson White

source: Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

topic: Years, Two, Different

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

- Andrew Eldritch

topic: Different, Humour

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

- Andrew Eldritch

topic: Different, Way, Music Is

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

- Andrew Flintoff

topic: Different, Envelopes, Turns

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

- Andrew Greeley