Quotes about differences
differences america england
Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere. Bob Marley
differences inability praying
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. Bill Watterson
differences shoes trying
The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try. Bill Vaughan
differences long people
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
differences sound reason
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
differences people talent
I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference. Bob Hartley
differences making-a-difference world
Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world. Bill Frist
differences people age
I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be. Betty Friedan
differences effectiveness ghost-stories
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved. Bennett Cerf
differences lucky action
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action. Bill Gates
differences ignorant reason
Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference. Charley Reese
differences knowing world
There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Bill Phillips
differences people making-a-difference
I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference. Bill Richardson
differences surprise compliment
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. Jane Austen
differences skins bones
Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh. Jasmine Tookes
differences environmental making-a-difference
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. Jared Diamond
differences history different
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves
differences bears earth
On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best. Jane Welsh Carlyle
differences making-a-difference revolution
One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution. Bryant H. McGill
differences action procedures
I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it. Cesar Chavez
differences determined gender
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. Carol Gilligan
differences old-and-new information
There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks… Carl Shapiro
differences assessment way
[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. Alain de Botton
differences despair stories
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
differences attention details
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. Charles R. Swindoll
differences fundamentals faculty
There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties Charles Darwin
differences chance origin-of-species
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
differences support economy
There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations. Charles Bass
differences limits tools
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. Charles Babbage
differences ego world
Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego. Charles Barkley
differences making-a-difference trying
I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference. Alanis Morissette
differences facts reason
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... Blaise Pascal
differences knowing loving-him
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.