Difference Quotes
5278 quotes by 3526 authors
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I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to…
— J R Ward
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I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older…
— Michael Cunningham
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I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing…
— Cecelia Ahern
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People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on…
— Danielle Steel
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Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how…
— Chuck Klosterman
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If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife,…
— Kristin Cashore
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A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature…
— Tom Robbins
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Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.'…
— George MacDonald
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But you're dead," said Harry. "Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. "Then...I'm dead too?" "Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. "That is the question, isn't…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world…
— Alain Badiou
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This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might…
— David Levithan
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For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will…
— Bo Schembechler
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No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is…
— Nancy Farmer
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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…
— Terry Pratchett
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The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.†Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am…
— George R. R. Martin
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Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished…
— Lois Lowry
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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