Differences Quotes - Page 23

• I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

  Henry Miller

  Falling In Love, Selfish, Thinking

  "Tropic of Cancer".

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• The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

  Audre Lorde

  Bridges, Broken, Silence

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.44, Crossing Press

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• There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Squirrels, Bombs

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• I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

  Sara Ryan

  Ideas, Knowing, Making A Difference

  Sara Ryan (2009). “Rules for Hearts”, p.94, Penguin

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• With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Brother, Eye, Past

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• There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

  Tony Benn

  Suicide, War, People

  "Question Time" (BBC), March 22, 2007.

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• There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

  Saadi

  Eye, Doors, Mistress

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.19, Innovations and Information

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• There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

  John Dewey

  World

  John Dewey (2008). “The School and Society”, p.39, Aakar Books

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• The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Adventure, Cows, Beans

  "Fictional character: Jack". "Into the Woods". Musical by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim, 1986.

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• Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Soldier, Might

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• The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Distance, Views

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• Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.

  Michael Crichton

  Sex, Men, Facts

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

  Katherine Paterson

  Heart, Suicidal, Thinking

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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• Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

  Jodi Picoult

  Phones, Numbers, Triumph

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

  Glenn Beck

  Destiny, Men, Decision

  "An Inconvenient Book". Book by Glenn Beck, November 20, 2007.

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• When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

  Michael J. Fox

  Dream, Doctors, Drug

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• Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Reality, Past

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• The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Morning, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Business, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.501, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

  Bernard Beckett

  Fear, Optimistic, Years

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Home, Backyards

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• Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.184, Penguin

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• What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

  Toni Morrison

  Fear, Real, Scared

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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