Differences Quotes - Page 19

• I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

  Marilyn Manson

  Making A Difference, Bills, Nightmare

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• The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Piano, Practice

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• I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Bigs, Been In Love

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

  Emily Bronte

  Quality, Gold, Tin

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.522, Penguin

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• We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Beautiful

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• Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Love Is, Bridges, People

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Listening, Listening And Hearing, Hearing

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• Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Eye, Artist

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• Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.

  Sloane Crosley

  Teacher, Believe, Kids

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.60, Portobello Books

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

  Sidney Sheldon

  Political, Rebel, Patriot

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• A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

  Alan Moore

  Numbers, Life And Death, Body

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

  Fred Rogers

  Space, World, Love And Trust

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.95, Penguin

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• In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Space, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Time, Miracle

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• They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?

  Joseph Heller

  Trying, Doe, Shooting

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fear, Book, Atheism

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• 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

  School, Two, Evil

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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• The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Dream, Reality

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• I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like her at all. 'You know what?' I say. 'Forget it. I'll do the list by myself.' She stands up, swings her stupid hair about and tries to look offended. It's a trick that works with guys, but it makes no difference to the way I feel about her.

  Jenny Downham

  Stupid, Hair, Swings

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• Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

  Sarah Dessen

  Timing, Hours, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.221, Penguin

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• Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

  William James

  Truth, Ideas, Usual

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Deals, Stills

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• There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Patchwork

  Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.12, Hackett Publishing

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• The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Expectations, Outcomes, Concerned

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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