Differences Quotes

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?

Spend your energy on things that make a difference.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

Go out into the world, find work that you love, learn from your mistakes, and work hard to make a difference.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

There is a difference between having a vision and suffering from a hallucination.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.