To Be Different Quotes

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
- Abdallah Ii

Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?'
'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.'
Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?'
'Yes'
He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.
- Joe Abercrombie

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
- Theodor Adorno

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.
- Jaachynma N E Agu

Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.
- Jaachynma N E Agu

All human beings are different and should take their right to be different to its ultimate consequences
- Paulo Coelho

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
- Paulo Coelho

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.
- Chris Van Allsburg

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
- Virginia C Andrews

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.
- Avi

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal itall idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessarybut love it
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.
- Oscar Wilde

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.
- Karl Barth

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.
- Albert Camus

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
- Tony Bennett

I've never met a girl who thinks like you."
"A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!
- Haruki Murakami

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
- Thornton Wilder

You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.
You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.
- Toba Beta

You can't start the change unless dare to be different.
- Toba Beta

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple the population. Films and radios, magazines, books levelled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you follow me?
- Ray Bradbury

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
- Kate Bosworth

We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.
- John Boyne

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
- Donna Brazile

I do not know why there are more people in the world that dare to be different than there are people who dare to make a difference.
- Tonny K Brown

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
- Aaron Brown

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.
- Michael Buble

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
- Stephen Chbosky

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. And disappear. I know that's wrong because it's my responsibility, and I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.
- Stephen Chbosky

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.
- Chris Burke

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.
- Augusten Burroughs

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
- Jim Butcher

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
- Marian Wright Edelman

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.
- Rachel Cohn

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.
- Terry Pratchett

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.
- Lily Collins

You think you're different." Her voice wavered, and she hated sounding so weak. "You think you're all so different," she went on, louder this time. "You do everything to be different," she spat. The silence of the table -of the whole cafeteria- was reclaimed in an instant. "But you're not," she said at last. "You are just like every. Body. Else
- Kelly Creagh

A Shadow's Tale - I'm going to keep calling it A Shadow's Tale because fuck America for wanting to be different and special all the time.
- Yahtzee Croshaw

We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial.
- Virginia Woolf

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
- Clive Cussler

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.
- Viola Davis

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'
- Giada De Laurentiis

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from on another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hate. That'll show them.
- Ellen Degeneres

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
- Johnny Depp

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
- Maria Sharapova

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
- Adrian Edmondson

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
- George Eliot

To be me is to be different..
- Robert Fanney

9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life?
I know. Will eat some cheese.
- Helen Fielding

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
- Serena Williams

Almost all of us have the hankering to be famous, to be important, to be admired, to stand out, but the assumption is you have to be different or better to get that. No. The best thing is to be famous, to be cuddled by the public, but to be like everyone else.
- Tibor Fischer

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
- Peter Fonda

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.
- Anne Frank

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
- Arthur Freed

You're not going to be different... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.
- Leo Tolstoy

She'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out.
- Laurell K Hamilton

I didn't want to be different.
I wanted to be able to laugh
But I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.
I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved... and to love.
- Frank Herbert

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.
- Esther Hicks

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
- Eric Hoffer

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evans Hughes

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.
- Chad Hugo

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.
- Kristen Johnston

Dream dialogue:
-Don't cry. I, too, know what it's like to be different.
-But I'm not different. I'm normal, I'm average, and that's why I'm crying.
- Jarod Kintz

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.
- David Kay

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
- Anthony Kiedis

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?
- Annette Curtis Klause

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
- Thomas Kretschmann

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
- Bill Kreutzmann

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
- Christian Lacroix

Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is different, they ostracize them?
- Charles De Lint

I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
- Betty Macdonald

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
- Margaret Mahy

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.
- Paul Mcdonald

For in today's generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it's impossible.
- Rebecah Mcmanus

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
- Mark Millar

Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.
- Donald Miller

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.
- Shaquille Oneal

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
- Michael Porter

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.
- Miuccia Prada

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.
- Ayn Rand

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.
- Christy Romano

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz

I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely a device to gain an advantage over a common foe. "Perhaps I care because I strive to be different from my people," he said, as much to himself as to Bruenor. "Perhaps I care because I am different from my people. I may be more akin to race of the surface...that is my hope at least. I care because I have to care about something.
- R A Salvatore

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.
- Anne Wilson Schaef

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
- Rupert Sheldrake

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.
- Tom Sizemore

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
- Bubba Smith

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
- Baruch Spinoza

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria
- Danielle Steel

You're lucky enough to be different, never change.
- Taylor Swift

Your lucky enough to be different, never change
- Taylor Swift

If you're lucky enough to be different dont ever change.
- Taylor Swift

Your lucky enough to be different, don't ever change
- Taylor Swift

If you were lucky enough to be different, don't ever change
- Taylor Swift

If your lucky enough to be different, dont ever change
- Taylor Swift

If you're lucky enough to be different from everyone else, don't change.
- Taylor Swift

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
- Amber Tamblyn

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.
- Daniel Tammet

Ignore the critics... Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule. Dare to be different!
- Dita Von Teese

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
- Brad Thor

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?
- Steve Toltz

I've been fightingn my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
- Elie Wiesel

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?
- Gerard Way

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.
- Bridgette Wilson

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.
- Lee Ann Womack

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.
- Jessica Zafra