different quotes

How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!

-Anonymous
c.1892  Overheard from a member of the audience when Sarah Bernhardt appeared in the role of Cleopatra.

Here I must say, in my eighty-sixth year, I do not feel greatly different from when I was eighty-five. This is my final word. It is time for me to become an apprentice once more. I have not settled in which direction. But somewhere, sometime soon.

-Baron
  Address at a farewellbanquet in London, hostedfor him by Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, 25 May. He died two weeks later.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment.We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

-Va  clav Havel
  Speech,1  Jan.

Upon those that step into the same rivers different and different waters flow. They scatter and gather, come together and flow away, approach and depart.

-Heraclitus   fl.500
c.500  BC  Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds)  The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6. Often quoted as 'It is not possible to step into the same river twice', from Plato, Cratylus 402a.

Universitas in modo citharae sit disposita, in qua diversa genera in modo chordarum sit consonantia. The universe is arranged like a cithera, in which different kinds of things sound together harmoniously, just as they do in a chord.

-Honorius of Autun
c.1120  Liber Duodecem Questionum, ch.2.

I was hungry once and once you're hungry, you're different.

-Johnnie B(ryan) Hunt
  In Forbes,19 Oct.

Different living is not living in different places But creating in the mind a map.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  'Different Living'.