Differences Quotes · Page 53

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

— Chris Cleave

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter…

— Franz Grillparzer

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

— Robert Wyatt

There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.

— Bree Despain

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a…

— Michael Arndt

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

— Jason Isbell

I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the…

— Mickey Rivers

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to…

— Dr. Seuss

Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the…

— Yehuda Berg

One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or…

— Vance Havner

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly…

— Billy Collins

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived…

— Matthew Arnold

[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the…

— Chris Hughes

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school,…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,…

— Willard Gaylin

The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart…

— Charles Fillmore

Confidence: It's the difference between the girl with the perfect body in a one-piece bathing suit, pulling at it and thinking she's…

— Jennifer Lopez

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,…

— Plato

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp…

— Lillian Smith

A lot of the difference between an IM and GM is a seriousness to the game. The GM is willing to go…

— Nick de Firmian

The big difference is, as a man, I can go to a bar at two in the morning and people will be…

— Robert Greene

Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background,…

— Dalai Lama

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

— Roy Acuff

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

— Dennis Prager

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it.…

— Pete Sampras

There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel…

— Chris Rock

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

— Peter Senge

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of…

— Austin O'Malley

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

— Jami Attenberg

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job,…

— Martha Stewart

I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do…

— J.R. Ward

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of…

— Christian Lous Lange

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

— David Mamet

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches.…

— Stephen King

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement…

— John Allen Paulos

The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.

— Fred Edwords

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

— Anonymous