Differences Quotations | Page 7

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.

People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

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

It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.