Differences Quotes - Page 34

• If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Giving Up, Passion

  "J. Michael Stracyznski takes over Superman and Wonder Woman" by Glenn Hauman, www.comicmix.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode... pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.

  Karen Chance

  Real, Past, Two

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.681, Penguin

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• In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Blood, Land, India

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

  Agatha Christie

  Real, Hair, Sides

  Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

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• It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Heaven, Different

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.7, Tyché

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• happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.

  Jennifer Egan

  Pain, Numbers, Legs

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.74, Anchor

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• Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.

  Osamu Dazai

  Mind, Firsts, Answers

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

  John Steinbeck

  Liars, Lying, Loss

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.67, Penguin

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• - the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

  Andrew Kaufman

  Stories, Happy Endings, Ends

  Andrew Kaufman (2011). “The Waterproof Bible”, p.18, Saqi

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• We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as our commonalities. We establish a divine bond with each other as we approach God together through family prayer, gospel study, and Sunday worship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Fun, Home

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• The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.

  David Levithan

  Successful, Keys, Choices

  "The Lover's Dictionary". Book by David Levithan, www.sfgate.com. 2010.

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• And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.

  Joseph Conrad

  Steps, Moments, Sincerity

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.112, eKitap Projesi

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• There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Writing, Judging

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Sacrifice, Settling

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1455, Scholastic Inc.

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• Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fall, Night, Essence

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, "A Factless Autobiography", number 3, translation by Richard Zenith, 1982.

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• Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Friday, Morning, Pain

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• There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

  R. A. Salvatore

  Way, Path, Going Out

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• The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Atheist, Buddhist, Believe

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

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• What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, People, Giving

  Christopher Isherwood (1964). “A single man”

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• What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

  David Eddings

  Uncles, Stupid, Eagles

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

  Tom Clancy

  Wise, Real, Mistake

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.201, Penguin

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• There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

  Elise Broach

  Giving, Accepting

  Elise Broach (2005). “Shakespeare's Secret”, p.39, Macmillan

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• The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

  Judith McNaught

  Adages, Mark, Knows

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Something Wonderful”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.

  Dennis Lehane

  Men, Thinking, Different

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• Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

  Todd Strasser

  People, Matter, Ends

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