Differences Quotes · Page 125

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

— Democritus

A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I…

— Gil Scott-Heron

The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

— Lorna Byrne

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in…

— Cassandra King

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

— Guido Molinari

If you need me or my help I will help you, whatever path you may follow. For me there is no difference.…

— Mother Meera

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

— Joseph Stalin

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference…

— John M Swomley

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of…

— Leo Rosten

In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement…

— Moshe Feldenkrais

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life changing difference. True or true?…

— Mark Victor Hansen

I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other…

— Steve Grand

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could…

— Mary Meeker

My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the…

— Ray William Johnson

Since I've stopped drinking I'm way better at singing. I can project my voice better. I can actually walk on stage and…

— Ladyhawke

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not…

— Mitch Albom

Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is…

— Ravi Zacharias

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort…

— Ann Landers

It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it…

— Demosthenes

It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the…

— Eleanor Friedberger

The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty…

— Laura Riding

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

— Anonymous

There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can…

— Henry Ford

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and…

— Ernest Hemingway

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an…

— Euripides

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room…

— Bill Vaughan

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

— Ayelet Waldman

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

— R. Scott Bakker

I train the same way as I've always trained, even before I was champion. That's the difference, I train like a challenger.

— Joe Calzaghe

Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like…

— Jasmine Tookes

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

— Albert Einstein

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

— Rocco Buttiglione

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want…

— Cate Blanchett

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

— Jodi Picoult

I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

— Joe E. Lewis

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

— Madeleine Vionnet