Difference Quotes

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

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.

Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.