Top 100 Difference Quotes
#1. The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
Byron Katie
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Maybe you have thought that doing ... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
Joe J. Christensen
#7. Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
David Deida
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.
Juanita M. Kreps
#11. 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
#12. Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.
Letty M. Russell
#13. Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.
Mario Chalmers
#14. Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping.
George R R Martin
#15. Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.
Brenda Strong
#16. The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
Nathan Myhrvold
#17. 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
#18. When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
Jack Canfield
#19. I am gratified on a regular basis by the people I meet all across the country who dedicate their efforts to protecting the environment and public health and are making a difference. The great thing about working on important issues is all of the other people you meet doing the same thing.
Laurie David
#20. It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity.
Ken Bruen
#21. Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
Vic Mignogna
#22. Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.
D. Elton Trueblood
#23. For a person to make a difference in the world, he must be different than the world.
Orrin Woodward
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I was liked, and what a difference it made.
Maya Angelou
#27. The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.
Janet Hagberg
#28. Everyone stumbles through it all the same; the main difference lies not in the lack of dysfunction but in the desire to be dishonest about it. Every family has problems, but only some let you see them. The rest just keep their chaos behind closed doors and out of conversation.
Kevin Breel
#29. The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference.
Ardeth Greene Kapp
#31. Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.
Bob Anderson
#33. It's been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.
Lawrence Bender
#34. Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
Hasso Plattner
#35. There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
C. G. Jung
#36. There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz
#37. 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
#38. You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.
Frank Herbert
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. The silence wasn't
like the ones I'd known
lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different
feel to quiet when you're
with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference
between a pause and an
ending.
Sarah Dessen
#42. I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
Katherine Boo
#43. Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#44. I feel prettier with a naked face and ChapStick. But a good haircut makes a huge difference.
Lena Dunham
#45. Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.
Megan Duke
#46. Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others
Gordon B. Hinckley
#47. When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season ...
Edna O'Brien
#48. A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Tony Benn
#49. 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
#50. It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years.
Gerald Kogan
#51. Passion means making the choice to do that for which we can make the greatest difference. It means saying no to opportunities that may be good but not the best. It means that the best path is not always the easiest path.
Thom S. Rainer
#52. It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.
Richard Florida
#53. I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.
Ray Charles
#54. When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Jim Henson
#55. How long have you been a Wiccan?'
'A what?'
'A pagan. A witch.'
'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'
Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?'
'Wizard has a Z'
He looked at me blankly.
'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.
Jim Butcher
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.
Jordan Peele
#60. What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.
Bobcat Goldthwait
#61. Dare the difference. That we like. "You have to be savvy about it," Lagarde allows, "but you also, in a sense, have to be confident about the difference.
Katty Kay
#62. I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.
Glenn Ford
#63. The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.
Michael Cunningham
#64. The soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.
Carl Jung
#65. Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.
Bob Marley
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Animation translates well to a small screen. When you look at Walt Disney or Chuck Jones - you know, Bugs Bunny - there really isn't any difference if you watch on a very big screen or a computer screen.
Isabella Rossellini
#69. 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
#70. There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.
Jacob M. Appel
#71. Some people like me, some don't. I don't understand, Where the difference comes from. My heart like them all. For a simple childish reason. We all are created equal, we all are humans.
Santosh Kalwar
#72. Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.
Ken Hendricks
#73. You can't know what difference you'll make, but you are part of something. I think so. We all have things we're meant to do. People we're meant to care about. We're all meant to matter.
Doug Wilhelm
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
#77. The differences in the way men and women are treated are real. And the fact is this difference in treatment has no basis in the differences between men and women. I was the same person, and I was treated entirely differently. I got real interested in feminist theory
real fast.
Kate Bornstein
#78. I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids can really make a difference, physically and mentally. I'd be really disappointed if I had been ranked No. 2 behind someone who took steroids.
Chris Evert
#79. But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
Birch Bayh
#80. Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.
Ben Carson
#81. success is not always measured in terms of dollars earned or turnover. It is measured in terms of the difference you have made to the people around you.
Ravi Subramanian
#82. The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
Joey Adams
#83. Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?
Margaret Atwood
#84. 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
#85. We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference
Myles Munroe
#86. The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Robert Frost
#87. Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.
Tara Brach
#90. Kurt Angle and Randy Orton were great guys to work with. The Undertaker was great to work with, believe it or not, because of the height difference. But overall, my number one choice is Eddie Guerrero, and that's because without him, Rey Mysterio wouldn't be at the level that he was in WWE.
Oscar Gutierrez
#91. The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success
Ikechukwu Joseph
#92. 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
#93. And didn't he have eight kids or something? Are you just trying to kill me now?" "One. Eight. What's the difference?" "Sanity, man. Sanity is the difference.
Lauren Blakely
#94. Difference makers look with their own eyes from a variety of perspectives to see new possibilities.
David Sturt
#95. It does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.
Clarence Darrow
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.
Don Everly
#99. The difference between an explanation and an excuse lies with the one receiving it.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#100. 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
