Differences Quotes

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

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 wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

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.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.

There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

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

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

How can art make a 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.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

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

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.

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

The difference breeds hatred.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

My focus is not on any one particular election or any one particular candidate. My focus is on the issues and policy that will make a difference expanding opportunity.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.