#differ

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#country #depressed #different #different way #eat

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#suicide #dreams

Yeah – Sure I remember Matter of fact it was just last September She still calls it the fall to remember Little Heather when it all came together You remember the first time you met her? She cried when it rained and blamed the weather But inside she strained with suicide letters The kind of cold you couldn’t warm with a sweater Hardly lasted past December She said she was headed down to defeat That’s the last you’d seen and never had dreamed That the same little Heather – It’s who you saw last week In an instant you couldn’t have missed her gleam As she listened she looked like a distant queen With a difference, there for all to see She found a different – A different kind of free ↗

— ZOEgirl

#music #sad #september #zoegirl #dreams

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#choose #conscious #decide #determination #different

We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness. ↗

— Vijay Prashad

#difference #faith

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense. ↗

— Richard Powers

#come #depend #different #different ways #each

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#approach #certainly #different #different points #director

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations. ↗

— Josh Charles

#different #different backgrounds #different roles #job #many

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#mortality #very #you

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#background #children #compositions #different #different levels