Top 100 Difference Between Quotes
#1. The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
Sydney J. Harris
#2. There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.
Amanda Mosher
#3. Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
Bruce Lee
#4. He felt himself go cold as he suddenly realized what a dangerous game he was playing. So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children's use. He never made the difference between poor and rich.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#6. Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
Haruki Murakami
#7. The difference between a small local business that must share the fate of the local community and a large absentee corporation that is set up to escape the fate of the local community by ruining the local community.
Wendell Berry
#8. I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"
He shook his head.
"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.
Larry Niven
#9. Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.
Cate Blanchett
#10. Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.
John Lennon
#11. If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.
Richard Koch
#12. The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)
Norman Fischer
#13. There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.
Anita Sarkeesian
#14. He had conceded in a panic - for it crushed Nilssen's spirit to be held in low esteem by other men. He could not bear to know that he was disliked, for to him there was no real difference between being disliked, and being dislikeable; every injury he sustained was an injury to his very selfhood.
Eleanor Catton
#15. The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
Joey Adams
#16. The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
Swami Brahmananda
#17. The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Robert Frost
#18. The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success
Ikechukwu Joseph
#19. And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
#20. What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?
Norodom Sihanouk
#21. Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
Campbell Scott
#22. The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.
Auliq Ice
#23. The difference between failure and success is availability! EL
Evinda Lepins
#24. LORD ILLINGWORTH. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. LADY
Oscar Wilde
#25. The difference between men and women is this
if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.
Deb Baker
#26. There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
George Horace Lorimer
#27. I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
Vivienne Westwood
#28. You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
Steve Forbert
#29. There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.
Stevie Jackson
#30. The difference between an explanation and an excuse lies with the one receiving it.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#31. I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.
Jane Asher
#32. Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.
Swami Vivekananda
#33. What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
Leonard Sweet
#34. I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
Estelle
#35. Knowing makes all the difference ... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
John Wyndham
#36. There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.
DMX
#37. The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
Byron Katie
#38. What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.
Bobcat Goldthwait
#39. Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Robert Heinecken
#40. Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.
Errol Morris
#41. I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.
Burt Rutan
#42. The difference between shooters and scorers is that shooters usually need plays to be run for them or screens to get their shot.
Walt Frazier
#43. For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
Elise M. Boulding
#44. You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.
Frank Herbert
#45. The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#46. There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz
#47. Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
Theophrastus
#48. The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
Mira Grant
#49. It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity.
Ken Bruen
#50. I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods
Good and Evil.
Graham Greene
#51. The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.
John Updike
#52. The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.
Juanita M. Kreps
#53. This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#55. The difference between classes of men is that the vast majority remember youth as their glory, and the tiniest fraction, in escaping a life of drudgery and increasing difficulty, finds something even better.
Mark Helprin
#56. The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
Al Pacino
#57. All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.
Robert Redford
#58. One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.
Lisa Fernandez
#59. If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love - the real writer wants to touch another person.
Edmund White
#60. What I saw when I was doing research is that in pursuit of a middle ground, people will kind of split the difference between the two extremes that they're hearing. And I think what's problematic is that people are seeing vaccinating on schedule, on time, as an extreme position.
Eula Biss
#61. There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
Tony Hsieh
#62. The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan
#63. Not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat - and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going. The
Upton Sinclair
#64. More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money ...
Gertrude Stein
#65. You will not achieve work/life balance as long as you believe there is a difference between the two. When you find life in your work and work with your life, you will have only life.
Alan Cohen
#66. The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
Austin O'Malley
#67. The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
M.J. Stoddard
#68. when there is a difference between perception and reality, perception always wins. Behind
Steven Fink
#69. Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
Christopher Pike
#70. And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.
Isolde Martyn
#71. One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.
Swami Vivekananda
#72. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.
Dr. Seuss
#75. One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty ... absolute certainty.
Paul Outerbridge
#76. When I was nine - before I grew up and became a scientist - I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At
Jodi Picoult
#77. I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
Jeff VanderMeer
#78. The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
Marilyn Manson
#79. The difference between two dissimilar ways of life gets portrayed as a fight between good and evil. Just
Amish Tripathi
#80. There is no difference between dark skin and light skin if you are both black. You are not inferior or superior, you are the same race.
Angela Khristin Brown
#81. We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
Jose Rodriguez
#82. I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.
Khoi Vinh
#83. I mean, was there really a difference between death and losing every ounce of who you are?
Jessica Sorensen
#84. This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death.
Daniel Pena
#85. I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.
Rudy Giuliani
#86. The difference between a fear and a circumstance is acceptance
Joe Vulgamore
#87. There is a difference between not being able to love, and not having the guts to try.
Dal Maclean
#88. Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
Fulton J. Sheen
#89. The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
Sharon Anthony Bower
#90. Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.
Coreen T. Sol
#91. What was it they said about the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of crap being the bucket?
Barbara Delinsky
#92. On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
Robert C. Solomon
#93. I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.
Jeff Beck
#94. There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.
Tom Waits
#95. I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.
Mary Decker
#96. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.
Paul Ryan
#97. It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.
Sandra Lee
#98. I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
#99. I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
Bashar Al-Assad
#100. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
