Differences Quotes - Page 17

• Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

  Hugh Laurie

  Fall, Blow, Piano

  "The Gun Seller". Book by Hugh Laurie, 1996.

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• The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Political, Politics

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• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Equality, Men

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• And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Irrelevance, Long, World

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• Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Motivational, Real

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• It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Pride

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• It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Winning, Death And Dying

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Health, Color, Orange

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

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• Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Bill Watterson

  Happiness, Being Happy, World

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

  Voltaire

  Intelligent, Ideas, Mules

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.51, Voltaire

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• Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Careers, Making A Difference

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Motivation, Judgment

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.36, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Quality, Backwards

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• The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Anger, Men

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• Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Prayer, Wall, Past

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.

  Audre Lorde

  Real, Silence, World

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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• You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Life, Trust

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

  David Guterson

  Love Is, Making A Difference, World

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.109, A&C Black

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• There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

  Nick Hornby

  Baby, Mug

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• Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because saying, 'Hey, is that only six donuts?' would betray their donut experience. It's not great for your career to be known as the person who can spot the difference between six and seven donuts at a glance.

  Max Barry

  Monday, Morning, Careers

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• The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Political, Generations

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• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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