Quotes on Differences

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.