The Difference Between Sayings

#1. Regardless of who they are, whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, Afghan women often describe the difference between men and women in just one word: freedom.

Jenny Nordberg

#2. I've sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

James M. Barrie

#3. The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.

Anuj

#4. Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Francis Bacon

#5. The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

Amity Shlaes

#6. The difference between a truth and a lie is determined when one chose to accept the other.

Anonymous

#7. The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

Sidney Sheldon

#8. Harry Mount hints at the possibility that I was admitted to Magdalen in 1960 because my father had been senior scholar there a quarter of a century earlier. I was, in fact, the winner of an open scholarship; Mr Mount should learn the difference between genetics and nepotism.

Michael Beloff

#9. Do you know the difference between a hero and a martyr?" Quentin shook his head. "A hero is alive," Father Harry said. "A martyr is not.

Scott Sigler

#10. The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Helene D. Gayle

#11. Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

Saib Tabrizi

#12. Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

Mark Helprin

#13. Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

#14. To be a MVF (Most Valuable Friend), you need to tell your friends the pure truth about themselves. However, how you tell them the truth is the difference between being a villain or a hero.

Ben Tolosa

#15. And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

Anne Holm

#16. The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing
love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.

Rhonda Byrne

#17. Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

Bashar Al-Assad

#18. Can you tell the difference between them?

Prince Philip

#19. The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Maria Montessori

#20. What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Vikram Seth

#21. guess he said cattle could tell the difference between a flight of geese and a cat on fire. Maybe

Cormac McCarthy

#22. If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#23. All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

Jack Bowman

#24. If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.

Robert Kiyosaki

#25. Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#26. The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

Richard B. Livingston

#27. We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.

Norman Fischer

#28. Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.

Laura Pritchett

#29. If you don't know the difference between theology and religious
studies, then you're a theologian.

Brian Bocking

#30. I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night.

Meg Rosoff

#31. You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#32. And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

Charles R. Swindoll

#33. The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

Jim Al-Khalili

#34. That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Bill Watterson

#35. I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

P. J. O'Rourke

#36. While we are seeking for pure love, good life, and a reason to live,
We sometimes forget key things in life.
And that is the ability to see what is the difference between
What is wrong and what is right.

The Eldest

#37. [His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like he'd said. It's strange because of course I'd known that. But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dreaming of flying and flight.

Nicola Yoon

#38. If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot.

Jason Flemyng

#39. The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#40. The difference between nations lay not in the technology itself but in the totality of the effort that brought that technology to life.

Amy Shira Teitel

#41. The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

Olivia Thirlby

#42. I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.

Arian Foster

#43. The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal ... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.

Jody Williams

#44. The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor.

Bill Maher

#45. After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'

Steve Martin

#46. What's the difference between yes and no?

Laozi

#47. The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts

Akon

#48. Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#49. That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.

Raymond Chandler

#50. The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. Learning how young people work is imperative - because getting the most out of employees can be the difference between success and failure for many companies.

Charlie Caruso

#52. The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.

Thomas Sowell

#53. I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)

Gail Carriger

#54. Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot

Larry Brooks

#55. For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Jody Williams

#56. In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Chris Murray

#57. What Hitchens should have written is: I wouldn't know the difference between conceptualism and realism, essentially and accidentally ordered causal series, Aristotle and Hume, etc., even if I were intellectually honest; but then, neither will the book reviewer at the New York Times, so who cares?

Edward Feser

#58. Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.

Brian Tracy

#59. What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

Swami Vivekananda

#61. Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

Adriana Trigiani

#62. The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

P. J. O'Rourke

#63. That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

Billy Magnussen

#64. What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

Laozi

#65. Prayer illuminates the difference between knowing God's will and guessing at it.

Becky Tirabassi

#66. I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

Agnes De Mille

#67. The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

Bill Crawford

#68. There are many sorts of love," she counsels me. "And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.

Philippa Gregory

#69. That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!

Jonathan Safran Foer

#70. No one's going to notice the difference between you pushing dandelions or daisies, so leave them something worth talking about.

Amrit Brar

#71. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt

M.C. Beaton

#72. Commitment is a line you must cross ... it is the difference between dreaming and doing.

Bernie Fuchs

#73. The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.

Clarice Lispector

#74. Recognise the difference between having and living.

Paul Wilson

#75. Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.

Brandon Mull

#76. The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

Gabor Mate

#77. The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

#78. I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.

Charles McCarry

#79. What is the difference between a gangster pulling out a gun and demanding you give him a thousand dollars of "protection money," and that same gangster pulling out a gun and demanding you provide him with a thousand-dollar "loan"? In

David Graeber

#80. What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

Keith Olbermann

#81. Lie detectors don't work on someone who can't tell the difference between truth and lies.

Joakim Zander

#82. The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

Jennifer Weiner

#83. I looked for a scrape in my reflection and then, meeting my own eyes, stood for a sec and tried to figure, like all girls in all mirrors everywhere, the difference between lover and slut.

Daniel Handler

#84. This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create.

Ally Condie

#85. The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Aaron Allston

#86. What's the difference between a dream and a goal?
Ink. That's right. Goals must be written down.

Del Suggs

#87. The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today.

Jay Baer

#88. The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

Charles Buxton

#89. Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.

Emma Stone

#90. The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated.

Alex Berenson

#91. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

Lev Grossman

#92. What's the difference between sin and shame?

Various

#93. The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still. The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive.

Margaret Atwood

#94. Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.

Adam Rex

#95. The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

Tom Peters

#96. I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.

Marian Seldes

#97. I have the time and the heart to fall and feel in love, but I am scared that I cannot certainly tell the difference between a slut and a beloved anymore.

M.F. Moonzajer

#98. The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Galen Starr Ross

#99. The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#100. What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.

Orhan Pamuk