Differences Quotes - Page 32

• It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like humid air. "Better than a bath in spaghetti any day." He said darkly, "If you share that little bit of personal information with anyone, I may have to kill you." "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me." "Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Nice, Clothes

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Gone, Manhattan

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

  Megan McCafferty

  May, Used, Pale

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• I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

  Lee Child

  Vagrants, Hobos, Bigs

  "Killing Floor". Book by Lee Child, March, 1997.

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• Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

  Dorothy Parker

  Enzymes, Hormones, Innuendo

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• Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Dog, Knows

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• I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Tears, Slavery

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 09, 2010

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• Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Sea, Looks

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• There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

  Meg Cabot

  Knowing, Listening, Hearing

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2014

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• And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Believe, Knowing, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.

  Kim Harrison

  Blood, Vampire, Chance

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• The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they’re not alone, that they’re actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live.

  Gerard Way

  Kids, Numbers, People

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• There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Successful, Light

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Knowing, Comfort

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.184, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.

  Pentti Linkola

  Perspective, Matter, Fighter

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.160, Arktos

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• Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

  Libba Bray

  Needs, Discord, Impediments

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Entrepreneur, Patriotism

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.253, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Lying, Reality

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• Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Years, Hundred, Five

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• The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

  Betty Smith

  Hands, Rich, Poor

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

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• I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time . . ." You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Light, Guilt, Twists

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• The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Friendship, Hurt, Real Friends

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