Differences Quotes - Page 33

• He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

  George R. R. Martin

  Life And Death, Steel, True And False

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.432, Bantam

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• To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

  David Gerrold

  Crazy, Moving, Home

  David Gerrold (2002). “The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son”, p.113, Forge Books

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• Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

  Chaim Potok

  Making A Difference, Ifs

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.140, Anchor

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• So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Running, Children, Childhood

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• What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

  Robin Hobb

  World, Fool, Made

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.297, Spectra

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

  Cameron Dokey

  Mother, Being Yourself, Sorry

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “The World Above”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

  Frank Delaney

  Love Is, Oil, Love And Friendship

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.16, Random House

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• In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

  Jay McInerney

  Fear, Thinking, Eyelashes

  Jay McInerney (2009). “How It Ended”, p.28, Vintage

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• Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Father, Feelings, Making A Difference

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• Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Views, Years

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• Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

  David Nicholls

  World, Courageous, Be Good

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK

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• We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

  Rick Yancey

  Jealous, Hypocrisy, Littles

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Regret, Ends, Wells

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• Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

  Sarah Dessen

  Events, Made

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.245, Penguin

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• To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

  Francine Prose

  Art, Light, Track

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• In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place where you don't. Suffering is over-rated, don't pursue it. Ask for help when you need it, don't when you don't, and learn to recognize the difference. Don't confuse movement and progress. Be kind. Be forgiving. Pay attention.

  Christopher Moore

  People, Drunk, Forgiving

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• Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.

  Nancy Garden

  Writing, Mean, Six Months

  Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Trying, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Like You, Wanted

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

  Vikram Seth

  Lows, Let Me Go, Let Me

  Vikram Seth (1999). “An Equal Music”, p.346, Penguin Books India

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

  Jodi Picoult

  Odds, People, Common

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1191, Simon and Schuster

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