Quotes about difference
differences events made
Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential. Sarah Dessen
differences timing hours
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
differences worry making-a-difference
If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it. Sandra Bullock
differences sometimes ill
I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference. Roseanne Barr
differences difficult
Respecting differences is very difficult. Rod Steiger
differences people ask-me
People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words. Rod McKuen
differences kindness-generosity persons
What a difference one person can make! Sasha Azevedo
differences religion quarrels
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips
differences perfect movement
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. Wendell Berry
differences choices humanity
Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.
differences dislike-me wells
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. W. Somerset Maugham
differences fool made
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
differences dukes chicago
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke. Vladimir Nabokov
differences people perception
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
differences desire important
Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire. Zig Ziglar
differences four watches
If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.
differences chance behavior
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance... Thomas Pynchon
differences healthy facts
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one. Robert Musil
differences jail actors
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail. Robert Mitchum
differences numbers people
There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all. Robert McNamara
differences choices administration
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. Robert Heller
differences church missions
I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference. Robert H. Schuller
differences tough-love acting
What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk? Ricki Lake
differences fifty united-states
With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States. Richard M. Nixon
differences presidential peaceful
Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.
differences people looks
The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery. Ray Winstone
differences killers velvet
I certainly know the difference between right and wrong. Robert De Niro
differences together ive-learned
I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference. River Phoenix
differences mexican chinese
The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family. Richard Rodriguez
differences giving perfection
The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference? Richard Rohr
differences people might
That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. Tucker Carlson
differences towers stories
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. Tullian Tchividjian
differences wish taught
There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them. Swami Vivekananda