Differences Quotes - Page 36

• Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teenager, Broken, World

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.

  Yehuda Berg

  Running, Opportunity, Bridges

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from May 24, 2011

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• The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.

  Dion Fortune

  Mean, Medicine, Meditation

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.45, Dion Fortune

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• If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Voting, True Democracy

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• Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.119, MIRA

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• Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Teacher, Students, Considering

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• But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

  Jodi Picoult

  Waiting, Next, Failing

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Fighting, Bridges, People

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.127, Melville House

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• I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Peace, Mean

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• She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

  Anna Godbersen

  Felt

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• We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Past, Sea, Common Sense

  Robert G. Ingersoll (1997). “Ingersoll's Greatest Lectures”, p.451, Health Research Books

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• A Warrior knows that an angel and a devil are both competing for his sword hand. The devil says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The angel says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The Warrior is surprised. Both the angel and the devil have said the same thing. The devil continues: "Let me help you." And the angel says: "I will help you." At that moment the Warrior understands the difference. The words may be the same but these two allies are completely different. And he chooses the angel's hand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Warrior, Hands

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• The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

  Max Lucado

  Business, People, Making A Difference

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.409, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Preparation, Cybernetics

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.29, Penguin

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• Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. You are also no crazier than everybody else around you. The only real difference is that you have confronted the situation they have not.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Crazy, Real, Yesterday

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• There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Being In Love, Ideas

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• My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Forbidden Love, Feelings

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Environmental, Making A Difference, Haiti

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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• I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

  Oscar Wilde

  Said, Fascinated

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.109, Prestwick House Inc

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• It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Demon, Danger

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

  Jim Butcher

  Arms, Chins, Throat

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• To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.

  David Mitchell

  Mistake, Six, Assuming

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• Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?" "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Reading, Twilight, First Love

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• You've met Nick?" "Yep, we've met, all right. He was kind enough to inform me that I have absolutely no say in whether you two date." "Well, you don't." "You know, you all could at least pretend that my opinion makes a difference.

  Julie James

  Two, Making A Difference, Opinion

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• If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

  Sherwood Smith

  Play, Water, Laughing

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