Top 100 Difference Of Quotes
#1. My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.
Thomas Jefferson
#2. I don't think it's a lack of will. I think it's an issue of what people view as constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment, number one, and what customers and business partners expect around the world from secure computing systems. And it's a difference of view.
Rod Beckstrom
#4. But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.
Naomi Wolf
#6. I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#7. Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.
Fethullah Gulen
#8. Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
Henry Moore
#10. Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.
Adolf Hitler
#11. You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.
Jane Austen
#12. It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;
Jane Austen
#13. Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman Melville
#14. Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
Robert Genn
#15. The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
#16. The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing
and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
Soren Kierkegaard
#17. I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Duke Of Wellington
#18. Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
#19. But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
Lactantius
#21. In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
Herman Kahn
#22. There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.
Renata Adler
#23. Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.
Jack London
#24. The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.
John Pintard
#25. The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.
Timothy Keller
#26. I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.
Henry A. Kissinger
#27. Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
Bertrand Russell
#28. Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#29. Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
Victoria Osteen
#30. It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.
Laurence Sterne
#31. In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
Helen Clark
#32. The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.
William Herschel
#33. That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect.
Jodi Picoult
#34. When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.
Lupe Fiasco
#35. The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe.
Edward Gibbon
#36. Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Herbert Hoover
#37. What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.
Dada Bhagwan
#38. I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
Studs Terkel
#39. I would say I'm very surprised it went down the way it did. I thought it was a possibility, but when I left for vacation, I definitely didn't think I would come back as not a member of the Titans. But we had a difference of the opinion somewhere along the way.
Matt Hasselbeck
#40. You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.
Neal Shusterman
#42. There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.
Chen-Ning Yang
#43. Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
Edward Albee
#44. One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.
Isaac Newton
#45. There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.
Angela Merkel
#46. You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.
Ryuho Okawa
#47. About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.
I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
Xiaolu Guo
#48. I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses ... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
John Locke
#49. The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
Ezra Pound
#50. Religion has to be protected; difference of opinion is not to be protected.
Dada Bhagwan
#51. I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.
Bruce Braley
#52. Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. And on a difference of three minutes, all of history changes.
Brent Weeks
#54. The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
Pete Sampras
#55. I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.
George Eliot
#56. What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#57. Whoever wishes to see the world truly, to rise in thought above the tyranny of practical desires, must learn to overcome the difference of attitude towards past and future, and to survey the whole stream of time in one comprehensive vision.
Bertrand Russell
#58. Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
Paul Harding
#59. Anybody body can be a Church goer, but there is a difference of "GOD" being in them then they being in the WORLD.
Henry Johnson Jr
#60. I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
Sadie Jones
#61. I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.
V.S. Naipaul
#62. And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. A feeling that He's right here with you or that you're miles apart, is the difference of a prayer with love, or with an absence of the heart.
Lisa Mischelle Wood
#65. Our stations in life, our difference of cultures, the pain-laid men who raised us - forbid us to be us. They have brainwashed us. We feel we should believe the polarity between us.
Coco J. Ginger
#66. I had examined him that day, too, looking away when his eyes met mine, for signs of difference, of godlessness. I didn't see any, but I was sure they were there somewhere. They had to be.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#67. POWER is the demonstration of comparative difference of wealth & influence. HUMBLENESS is to ignore the difference, even if it is exist.
Sukant Ratnakar
#68. There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
Sam Harris
#69. To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln
#70. You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.
Maimonides
#71. The difference of somebody of winning and losing, has nothing to do with their genetics, has nothing to do with their potential.
Greg Plitt
#72. There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.
Osho
#73. Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#74. Matt took a deep breath. Something just happened between them. Julie felt something for him.
She did. He could tell even through this online world. Whether it was him or Finn didn't really
matter. It was a difference of names really, that's all.
Jessica Park
#75. I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.
Thomas Browne
#76. I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
Isaac Asimov
#77. The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.
Bruce Braley
#78. A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers
#79. Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
Benjamin Rush
#80. It's almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.
Jasper Johns
#81. Lincoln was "the first great man that I talked with in the United States freely who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, or the difference of color."92 Nor did Lincoln mean
Allen C. Guelzo
#82. I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.
Craig Newmark
#83. I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.
Thomas Jefferson
#84. All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
Marya Mannes
#86. What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
Willie Mays
#87. We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
Malachy McCourt
#88. First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
#89. Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
George Bernard Shaw
#90. Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them. It was the difference in where we were born, and to whom, that separated us---not the difference of who we were.
Cristina Rathbone
#91. It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
Tom Selleck
#92. The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn't make a difference of fact somewhere; and it seeks to determine the meaning of all differences of opinion by making the discussion hinge as soon as possible upon some practical or particular issue.
William James
#93. I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
#94. I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.
Dennis Kucinich
#95. Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.
Zelda La Grange
#96. I'd clash with my dad over other things, you know, like difference of opinion and me getting testosterone, you know what I'm saying? Me feeling like I'm a little tough, being a teenager. But my big brother would come in drunk and really, really try my dad and I didn't want to do that.
Ryan Montgomery
#97. We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
Rafik Hariri
#99. The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.
Bulent Ecevit
#100. [at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. It did not lie between the large and small States: it lay between the Northern and Southern.
James Madison
