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Quotes including the word “difference”.

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Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Karen Blixen

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

Charles Bukowski

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Calvino

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Diogenes

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Ian Fleming

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Khalil Gibran

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

Hawking

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”

William James

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

William James

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

John Keats

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Lamartine

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim

Andre Malraux

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.

Claude McKay

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

Valery Paul

Politeness is organized indifference.

Valery Paul

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Jackson Pollock

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Virginia Satir

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”

Virginia Satir

“Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference”

Paul Valery

Politeness is organized indifference.