Differences Quotes - Page 24

• A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Nuts, Long

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Friendly, Earth, Layers

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The children of God have more in common then they have differences.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Common, Child Of God

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• The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

  Confucius

  Earth, Facts, Helping

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• Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

  Howard Gardner

  Loyalty, Integrity, Ethical Principles

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• The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Needs, Fiction

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• The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

  Scott Adams

  Alcohol, Marketing, Criminals

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• Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Unique, Men

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• AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

  Pascal Mercier

  Real, Soul, Shadow

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• I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fiction, Stories, Not Sure

  Philip K. Dick (1991). “The collected stories: The minority report”

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• It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

  Ayn Rand

  Beautiful, Mean, Feelings

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• There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

  Kenneth Grahame

  Woods, Way, Ends

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.36, Penguin

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• Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Brother

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?

  Ayn Rand

  Years

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• Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

  Michael J. Fox

  Optimism, Parkinson's, Said

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• And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

  Ernest Hemingway

  Rain, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• ....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

  Brandon Mull

  Listening, Hearing, Helping

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.

  Kathy Acker

  Dream, Children, Book

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• The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Men, People, Guy

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• Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

  Jane Austen

  Surprise, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Feelings, Realizing, Graves

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• Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

  Eduardo Galeano

  Rights, Air, Knives

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• There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

  John Scalzi

  People, Levels, Facts

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• I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

  Dean Koontz

  Together, Way, Different

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• Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Life, Diversity

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