Differences Quotes - Page 29

• You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

  John Steinbeck

  Looks, Ifs, Knows

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.175, Hamilton Books

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• The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  Robert Graves (1972). “Poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

  Aristotle

  Essentials, Absence, Whole

  Aristotle, Preston Herschel Epps (1942). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

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• Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

  Bell Hooks

  Meaningful, Moving, Safety

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge

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• Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

  Bill Watterson

  Inability, Praying, Hobbes

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• You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

  Kate Morton

  Life, Princess, Pages

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

  Henry Ford

  Hands, Profound, Devil

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• The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There’d be riots in the streets about the people we’re killing. And yet because it’s Obama, and he’s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

  Penn Jillette

  Reading, Numbers, People

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• We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Growing Up, Cheater

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• There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

  Toni Morrison

  Hard Work, Writing, Pay

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.170, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Let go of me, Celt, or I’ll rip your arm off. And you know what? I don’t care if I lose both of mine in the process. That’s the difference between us. Pain is my friend and ally. You fear it. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.546, Macmillan

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• The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Maturity, Judging

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.254, Macmillan

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• It looks to me as though these politics mean Serbs, Croats and Muslims. But they are all people. They are all the same. They all look like people, there's no difference. They all have arms, legs and heads, they walk and talk, but now there's "something" that wants to make them different.

  Zlata Filipović

  Mean, People, Different

  Zlata Filipović (1994). “Le journal de Zlata”, Viking Adult

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• No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Jesus, Law, Names

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “The Book of Daniel: A Novel”, p.184, Random House

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• How long have you been a Wiccan?' 'A what?' 'A pagan. A witch.' 'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.' Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?' 'Wizard has a Z' He looked at me blankly. 'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.

  Jim Butcher

  Doors, Long, Appreciate

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.84, Penguin Group

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• Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

  Anne Frank

  Children, Real, Long

  Anne Frank (2001). “Diary Of A Young Girl”, p.59, Penguin Books India

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• Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

  David Foster Wallace

  Life, People, Want

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Falling In Love, Sadness, Two

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• Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

  William Stafford

  Hurt, Hate, Mistake

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.19, Macmillan

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• You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Kids, Fire

  "Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

  Mira Grant

  Hurt, Lying, Time Heals

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• Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Deceit, Cowardice

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