Differences Quotes - Page 16

• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Iron, Building, Capacity

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• There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Tower Of Babel, Towers, Stories

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• You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant.

  Mark Andrus

  Blow, Different, Life Is

  "Life as a House". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

  William J. Clinton

  Common Humanity, Working Together, Matter

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• A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

  Darren Shan

  Past, Would Be, Looks

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• And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Fate, Community

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• Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Two, Use

  Bill Bryson (2002). “Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words”, p.24, Broadway Books

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• Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

  Luce Irigaray

  Issues, Salvation, Our Time

  Luce Irigaray (1993). “An Ethics of Sexual Difference”, p.5, Cornell University Press

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• But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

  Rachel Cohn

  Choices, Ghost, Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.50, Egmont UK

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• Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Islands, Three

  "Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)".

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• You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

  Christopher Moore

  Trying, Morality, Tricky

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.93, Zondervan

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• It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

  Michael Chabon

  Denial, Used, Known

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Earth, Lasts

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.

  Samuel Beckett

  Lying, Littles, Appearance

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• Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

  Terry Pratchett

  Erotic, Kinky, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Eric: A Novel of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

  William James

  Degrees, Different, Mysticism

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.297, Courier Corporation

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• You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ends, Know How, Knows

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Women, History

  Sula (1973)

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• One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Knowing, Bed, Tonight

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Faithful

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

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• What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Hero, Doe

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• Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, Desert, Way To Live

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

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• And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, One Day, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Littles, Lasts

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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