Difference Quotes

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So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded… — Derrick Jensen
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public. — Maxim Gorky
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or… — Lev Grossman
No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan,… — Shel Silverstein
I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race.… — Jean Webster
What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow.… — Sherman Alexie
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. — Christopher Moore
And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that… — Garth Stein
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.â€¦We know that the… — Jostein Gaarder
[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we… — Alexandra Fuller
Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could… — J R Ward
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive… — Mahatma Gandhi
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which… — Yann Martel
Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken… — Marvin J. Ashton
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to… — Yukio Mishima
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk… — Frances Mayes
Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants… — E L Konigsburg
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with… — Bear Grylls
The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. — Anne Lamott

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