Difference Quotes

#1. I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

James Weldon Johnson

#3. The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

Salman Rushdie

#4. The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

Corrie Ten Boom

#5. What is the difference between fashion and style? Fashion says, 'Me, too,' and style, 'Only me.'

Geraldine Stutz

#6. The difference between two cents and one cent is small. But the difference between one cent and zero is huge!

Dan Ariely

#7. You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a hen. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple.

Douglas Adams

#8. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. You don't become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Charles M. Blow

#10. I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Michael Bloomberg

#11. Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man. Two human weaknesses only intensify each other. But human weakness plus Christ's weakness equals a supernatural strength.

Christian Wiman

#12. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#13. Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

David Foster Wallace

#14. The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Naveen Jain

#15. Churchill often reflected on this near-death episode and the effect of chance. 'You may walk to the right or to the left of a particular tree, and it makes the difference whether you rise to command an Army Corps or are sent home crippled or paralysed for life.

Phil Mason

#16. All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#17. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Glen Duncan

#18. I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

#19. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.

Yuval Noah Harari

#20. This advice from a college freshman carrying a cane?"

"It's a walking stick, I'll have you know."

"Same difference."

"Hardly. It's fashion.

Danika Stone

#21. I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Mary Fallin

#22. [I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

Katie Couric

#23. Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Ernst Haas

#24. There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Lisa Randall

#25. The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

Paul Hawken

#27. The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

Steven Furtick

#28. Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

Jay McInerney

#29. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

#30. I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

Paddy Ashdown

#31. To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

Diane Greene

#32. He said, Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.

Donald Miller

#33. For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.

Kristin Hannah

#34. And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

Bel Kaufman

#35. The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

Aldous Huxley

#36. The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

Danny Silk

#37. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?

Larry Brown

#38. There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

Oliver Reed

#39. 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 had never seemed to make a difference.

Nicholas Sparks

#40. What's the difference between Chamberlain and Hitler? Chamberlain takes a weekend in the country, Hitler takes a country in a weekend.

Norman Moss

#41. The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

Sean Kinney

#42. That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Bernhard Langer

#43. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#44. In the case of lived experience, there is no difference between an object that is perceived and the eye that perceives it.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#45. The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

Dinty W. Moore

#46. The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

Marvin J. Ashton

#47. For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Carol Tavris

#48. What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Toni Morrison

#49. Know the difference between famous and great.

Deacon Jones

#50. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

#51. Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.

Alexander McCall Smith

#52. There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

Mindy Kaling

#53. What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

Stephen Covey

#54. One person of integrity can make a difference.

Elie Wiesel

#55. When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#56. If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.

George H. W. Bush

#57. The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

Taylor Hanson

#58. Truth has nothing to do with your belief! Whether you believe or not makes no difference to truth. But

Osho

#59. A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter

#60. You can't care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it's NOT the time to be satisfying other people's opinions. The difference between what's good for you and what's good for everyone else is happiness.

Chrissy Anderson

#61. Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Saskia De Brauw

#62. Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.

Jeri Massi

#63. No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

Natalie Wright

#64. There's a big difference between trying to do something and actually doing it. We often say we're trying to do something-losing weight, getting more exercise, finding a job. But the truth is, we're either doing it or not doing it.

Tina Seelig

#65. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Woody Guthrie

#66. Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

Marie Colvin

#67. It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

Ellen DeGeneres

#68. So...you really feel a difference from drinking it?" Lad asked.
I nodded. He nearly jumped out of the chair and charged past me to the kitchen.
I followed him. "What are you doing?"
"Getting you a refill.

Amy Patrick

#69. It's not the having of the gift that makes the difference in life here or in another place. It's how we use that gift that shows the true heart. ~ Acronis

Madison Thorne Grey

#70. It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.

Zora Neale Hurston

#71. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Bruce Lee

#72. The difference between working with a man and a woman ... is immense.

Sherilyn Fenn

#73. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#74. There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to be a minor one, but it may imply the difference between the worship of God and the worship of music!

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#75. The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#76. Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Aleatha Romig

#77. If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Laurence J. Peter

#78. I found myself when I least expected you- at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see?

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#79. A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Andy Stanley

#80. Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

Freda Adler

#81. Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve;

Donna Tartt

#82. If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.

Lindsay Fox

#83. I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.

Rainbow Rowell

#84. The only difference between the two groups was that the students conceded that they were influenced by the anchor, while the professionals denied that influence.

Daniel Kahneman

#85. It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral. says the dressmaker.

Maryrose Wood

#86. When people meet me, I hope that they say this: 'This is a guy who, number one, loves the Lord, but he also loves people, and he wants to make a difference in people's life. And he wants to help everyone he comes in contact with, and he is genuine, he is real, and he cares about people.'

Tim Tebow

#87. The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Ralph Nader

#88. The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

Jeremy Roenick

#89. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

#90. There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

G.K. Chesterton

#91. A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.

Adrienne Bailon

#92. The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

Molly Friedenfeld

#93. Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.

Benjamin Stone

#94. If we think of the novel and the epic ... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero
a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.

Jorge Luis Borges

#95. What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about making a difference, not just making a living.

Keith Ferrazzi

#96. You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

Carolyn Hax

#97. As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Bill Maher

#98. When you surround yourself with positive people who are making a difference in the world, you start to believe anything is possible.

Steven Aitchison

#99. The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don't get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it's cold, we stand in the cold.

J. Richard Singleton

#100. The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.

Malcolm X