Quotes on Differences

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies randomness. Chaos in the technical sense is not random at all. It is completely determined, but it depends hugely, in strangely hard-to-predict ways, on tiny differences in initial conditions.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

I am impressed with just the enthusiasm for life and the fact that some of these people are in their 80's, even 90's, and they're absolutely determined to get out there and make a difference.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!