Differences Quotes
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Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.
William Whewell
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
Vita Sackville-West
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Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.
Evangelista Torricelli
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It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
Joseph Heller
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Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.
Robert Wyatt
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A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.
Terry Gross
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
Ernest Hemingway
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I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...Edward Snowden. And then watching the documentary, working on the film, you got to see his personal journey through this and sort of understand more about what he went through.
Scott Eastwood
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There are still some fundamental economic differences. We've said all along our goal is get a lease and we're going to continue to work on it. I don't think it'll be done Friday. We're probably looking at next week.
Bob DuPuy
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
Sarah Dessen
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A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.
Boots Riley
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It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
Chang-Rae Lee
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The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.
Celeste Ng
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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
Alice Mattison
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
Seth Godin
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman
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There aren't many differences. You won't play unless you play 'D' - that's the biggest similarity. They're both teachers of the game, and I like the way they both get out there and they show you what they want you to do. It's not just about 'Do this' and then don't explain it to you.
Nazr Mohammed
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It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
Michael Chabon
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The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.
Simon Sinek
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We never had a catalogue; we never said we were going to duplicate these pots this year and next year and the year after that and so forth. We did make many pots which were repeated, but we allowed them to change and to grow as we changed and grew, and I think that was the big difference. And that's all right; we were working for ourselves. We didn't have anybody we had to pay.
Warren MacKenzie
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I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.
Cecelia Ahern