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QUOTES including the word: "difference"

Valery Paul:
  • We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

  • 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.”

  • Valery Paul:
  • Politeness is organized indifference.

  • 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”

  • William James:
  • Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  • Paul Valery:
  • Politeness is organized indifference.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Ian Fleming:
  • A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.