Difference Quotes

• The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference.

  

  Ardeth Kapp
  • Effort
  • Difference
  • Adversary

• The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Hope
  • Philosophers
  • Pandora's box

• Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

  

  Katie Piper
  • Simple
  • Kindness
  • Foundation

• I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

  

  Sean Spicer
  • Society
  • Free
  • Understanding

• I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest.

  

  Katie Cleary
  • Difference
  • Habitats
  • Rainforest

• There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities.

  

  Amma Asante
  • Politics
  • Difference
  • Race

• What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Difference
  • Boring
  • Transient

• It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Marriage
  • Difference
  • Couple of dates

• There is little difference in being lost and exploring.

  

  Dan Eldon
  • Being
  • Difference
  • Exploring

• There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Products
  • Contribution
  • Extremely

• It was the pits, man. It was the difference between having all your dreams dashed and then three seconds later, they’re alive again. It was a shock, it was a genuine shock for me. I’m just glad I’m still here.

  

  Anoop Desai
  • Dreams
  • Difference
  • Shock

• The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

  

  George Saintsbury
  • Difference
  • Superiority
  • Attain

• He's a guy who can make a difference - make you miss - and he has the speed to pop through a little hole. They really take a pride in their running game. They'll take their shots down the field, but what jumps out at you - this year and last year - is that they're willing to be patient, willing to grind it out and do what they need to do to stay on the field.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Game
  • Pride
  • Grind

• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Difference
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Want
  • Difference

• You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.

  

  Daniel Simon
  • Real
  • Making
  • Warrior

• The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Door
  • Difference

• What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive. Typically your work will end up in a museum after you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead. But while we're alive, I like to see it in places where it's connected to day-to-day life and making a difference.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Song
  • Artists
  • Function

• For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Leadership
  • Making
  • Agency

• There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Doing
  • Difference
  • Knowing

• What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.

  

  Bobcat Goldthwait
  • Question
  • Clay
  • Rally

• The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

  

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Sense

• We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Way
  • Difference
  • Agreement

• What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling!

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Difference
  • Liberal
  • Spelling

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