Differences Quotes

• There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Different
  • Enemy
  • Approach

• There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing.

  

  Richard Stengel
  • Bigs
  • Governing
  • Campaigning

• The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Help
  • Helping
  • Friendship

• The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Harmony
  • Discord
  • Similarities

• But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Important
  • Actors
  • Bigs

• 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.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Good
  • Children
  • Bad

• The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.

  

  Sandy Adams
  • Differences
  • Constituents
  • Endorsements

• Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

  

  Anthony Weston
  • Face
  • Differences
  • Arguing

• Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Impression
  • Compare
  • Angle

• This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Believe
  • Clouds
  • Attributes

• The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Competition
  • Cities
  • Instance

• Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; that latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

  

  Reggie Bush
  • Football
  • Differences

• There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Poor
  • Class

• A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

  

  Elie Abel
  • Differences
  • Unions
  • Missiles

• It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

  

  Bo Schembechler
  • Opportunity
  • Worry
  • Waiting

• The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

  

  Wolfgang Ostwald
  • Prove
  • Elements
  • Impossibility

• Each person can make their difference.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Persons
  • Differences

• It seemed really easy waving your hands around, it wouldn't make any difference if you were moving it left or right, but I wanted to do it realistically. I think you can tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing. =

  

  Freddie Highmore
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Knows

• What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic.

  

  David Duke
  • Black
  • Effort
  • Color

• There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Differences

• At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Prayer
  • Animal
  • Differences

• We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike.

  

  Dean Frazer
  • Forever
  • Differences
  • Noticing

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