Quotes of Difference - somelinesforyou

“ It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it. ”

- James Caan

“ Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes round a corner. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, "What is truth?". ”

- Richard Whately

“ There is very little difference between men and women in space. ”

- Helen Sharman

“ I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference. ”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“ If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere, in nature, an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand. ”

- Wolfgang Kohler

“ It makes no difference whom you vote for — the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference. ”

- Bear Bryant

“ Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ”

- S. I. Hayakawa

“ Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”

- Pete Seeger

“ The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ”

- George Orwell

“ The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. ”

- Margaret Fontey

“ The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value. ”

- Abbe Guillaume Raynal

“ Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. ”

- Barbara De Angelis

“ The difference between management and administration is the difference between choice and rigidity. ”

- Robert Heller

“ The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ”

- Edwin Way Teale

“ What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ”

- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

“ The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa. ”

- Wangari Maathai
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