Differences Quotes

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

The similarities among different kinds of audiences far outweigh the differences.

....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't wander down Grafton Street thinking he's Bono.

The difference between a grave and a rut are the dimensions.

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens.

The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

How can art make a difference in the world?

The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Experiences are like cherry on the cake. It's nice, but that's not what's going to make a difference to the habit.

Know the difference between famous and great.

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.