“In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.” PeopleDifferencesKingsWidePriestsMexicoSpainIdeologicalNuanceChasms Author:Richard Condon
“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.” MenDeathMotherDifferencesSleepAcceptingClassStruggleKingsMen And WomenBreathingSpellsTwinsSheetsPatheticBeggarMajesticCastes Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories
“There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.” PeopleMeanMadeDifferencesKingsOfficeMaking A DifferenceOur SocietyDrsArchetype Author:Dennis Kucinich
“If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.” IfsYearsAmericaEnergyDifferencesPolicySeriousKingsManageGood DayBad DayArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisHingesEnergy PolicyGood Days And Bad Days Author:Thomas Friedman
“Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.” MenWayCountryScienceLyingBornDifferencesKnowingDivineKingsExerciseEnglandNotionEducatedMathematicianOur ThoughtsFacilityVirginiaEnquiry Author:John Locke
“The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?” EnoughOrderDifferencesLordKingsDrinkRainLet MeWineShiningCan NotDineRain Or Shine Author:Charles Mackay