Difference Quotes
5278 Difference quotes by 3342 unique authors
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The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
— Pentti Linkola
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Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus
— Rick Riordan
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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.
— Mark Twain
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I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
— Salman Rushdie
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Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!
— Charles M. Schulz
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The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do…
— Betty Smith
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He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between…
— George R. R. Martin
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I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time . . ." You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists…
— Julie Anne Peters
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The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own…
— David Gerrold
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Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.
— Chaim Potok
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So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
— Robin Hobb
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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
— Jay McInerney
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I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on…
— Cameron Dokey
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Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.
— Frank Delaney
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Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
— Albert Camus
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Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
— David Nicholls
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We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant…
— Rick Yancey
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We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about…
— Sarah Dessen
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To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of…
— Francine Prose
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In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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