Quotes about differ
differences making-a-difference doe
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere. William James
differences ideas truth-is
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
differences design special
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
differences degrees different
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
differences
A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
differences making-a-difference done
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
differences profound may
The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound. William Finnegan
different attention bears
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything. William Gibson
different life-is situation
Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different. Sarah Brightman
differences people your-boyfriend
we had each other. I never needed anyone else. That’s the difference between you and me. You need all these people around you. Your friends, your boyfriend, everyone. Every single person has to like you. I only ever needed one person. Only ever needed you. Sara Zarr
differences mind age
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining. Samuel Pepys
different would-be feels
It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone. William Faulkner
differences parent littles
Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference. Wil Wheaton
differences profound decision
There is a profound difference between information and meaning. Warren G. Bennis
differences government rich
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor. Ronald Reagan
differences government political
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.
differences abortion penalties
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide. Saint Basil
differences making-a-difference way
I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life. Yanni
differences ass enough
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. Witold Gombrowicz
different inspired sometimes
Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different. Wislawa Szymborska
different generations trials
Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms. Winston Churchill
differences irrelevance ironic
It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage. Warren Farrell
differences peculiar lines
The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike. W. C. Fields
differences different influence
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no. Zora Neale Hurston
differences way hopeless
There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens." Yvon Chouinard
differences people guy
I'm a busy guy; I just get a lot of people that sound like me to go out and visit them. They don't know the difference and, let's face it, they aren't going to be paying to see my movies anytime soon. Zach Braff
different accumulation
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Yuri Milner
differences religion quarrels
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips
differences perfect movement
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. Wendell Berry
differences choices humanity
Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.
differences dislike-me wells
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. W. Somerset Maugham
differences fool made
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
differences dukes chicago
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke. Vladimir Nabokov