Different Ways Quotes

• We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

  Neil Gaiman

  Different, Way

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• I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful." - from "Dug Down Deep

  Joshua Harris

  Meaningful, Thinking, Different

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• There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

  Anne Enright

  People, Different, Alive

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• Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

  Peter James

  Ideas, Serendipity, Different

  Peter James (2008). “Not Dead Enough”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it.

  Wendy Mass

  Eye, Thinking, Animal

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

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• The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

  Muriel Spark

  Art, Novelists, Different

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Oct 28, 2014

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• [A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Thinking

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• When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

  David Levithan

  First Love, Love Is, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.191, Egmont UK

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• I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention--it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Worry, Different

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

  Colleen McCullough

  Home, Two, Twelve

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.507, Head of Zeus

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• Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways.

  Rachel Joyce

  Different, Way, Happens

  Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.148, Random House

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• Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.

  Rachel Joyce

  Real, Thinking, Overcoming

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• At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

  Lauren Oliver

  Different, Way, Faults

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Memories, Book

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• 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

  Priorities, Brain, Different

  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

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• Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Believe, Men, Different

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• Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Space, Adults

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.

  Cate Tiernan

  Winning, Perfect, Trying

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• You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Memories, Reading

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• I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.

  Jonathan Coe

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Jonathan Coe (2011). “The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim”, p.11, Vintage

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• She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

  Kristin Hannah

  Different, Way, Thousand

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Fly Away”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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• Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.

  Abbi Glines

  Gun, Different, Way

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Forever Too Far”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love Is, Men, Years

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

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• I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.

  Veronica Roth

  Children, Father, Character

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• When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern of life has become natural to us. It is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in quite a different way. If he is crying, he is crying intensely. The cry of a child is a beautiful thing to hear, but the cry of an adult is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful; he has a total intensity. But when an adult is angry he is ugly; he is not total. And any type of intensity is beautiful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Children, Anger

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