Quotes and Sayings About Differences
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
-- A. O. ScottSource : "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autobots" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
-- Aaron Allston -
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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
-- Aasif MandviSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
-- Abba Eban -
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!
-- Abdul Kalam -
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
-- Aberjhani -
The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
-- Abraham HaywardSource : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
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I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.
-- Adam Carolla -
Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.
-- Adam GrantSource : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
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I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.
-- Adam Levine -
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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face.
-- Adam Michnik -
For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.
-- Adam Rickitt -
The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
-- Adam SavageSource : TV Series "MythBusters" ("Bouncing Bullet", 2012), (2003- ).
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On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.
-- Adele Scheele -
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Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
-- Adolph Rupp -
Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference!
-- Adora SvitakSource : "Amazing Kid! Spotlight on Adora Svitak, age 12, Amazing Young Educator, Author and Speaker". Interview with Kasy Dallman, mag.amazing-kids.org. September 2010.
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Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
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The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
-- Afeni Shakur -
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
-- Agnes de Mille