Differences Quotes

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

... people notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.

Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

I think that is the difference between the very good and the best.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Knowledge is the key to making a difference.

If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

People of difference are always held to different standards.

There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

I think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down.

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

The difference between night and day is, er, night and day.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

There may not be much difference between Democrats and Republicans anymore.

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.

The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it.

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.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.