Difference Quotes
5278 quotes by 3526 authors
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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can…
— Mark Twain
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The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference.…
— Robert K. Greenleaf
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The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
— Joan Chen
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Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.
— Chris Noth
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
— Lin Yutang
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of…
— Zadie Smith
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Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
— Ezra Pound
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At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
— Chang-Rae Lee
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The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements…
— Shirley Chisholm
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What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.
— Edward Abbey
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In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies…
— Edward Abbey
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It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
— Edward Abbey
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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends…
— Annie Leibovitz
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I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often…
— John Irving
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I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond…
— John Hume
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
— Wayne Gretzky
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