Differences Quotes - Page 13

• You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

  Christopher Moore

  Trying, Morality, Tricky

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.93, Zondervan

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• It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

  Michael Chabon

  Denial, Used, Known

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.

  Samuel Beckett

  Lying, Littles, Appearance

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• Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

  Terry Pratchett

  Erotic, Kinky, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Eric: A Novel of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Women, History

  Sula (1973)

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• One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Knowing, Bed, Tonight

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Hero, Doe

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• Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, Desert, Way To Live

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

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• The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Littles, Lasts

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

  Hugh Laurie

  Fall, Blow, Piano

  "The Gun Seller". Book by Hugh Laurie, 1996.

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• Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Equality, Men

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• And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Irrelevance, Long, World

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• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

  Herman Melville

  Health, Color, Orange

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

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• Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

  Voltaire

  Intelligent, Ideas, Mules

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.51, Voltaire

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• There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Quality, Backwards

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• The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Anger, Men

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• None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

  David Guterson

  Love Is, Making A Difference, World

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.109, A&C Black

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• There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

  Nick Hornby

  Baby, Mug

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• The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Political, Generations

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• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Motivational, Real

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• You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

  Charles Stanley

  Teacher, Thinking, Authority

  Interview with Michael Foust, www.bpnews.net. October 24, 2003.

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• The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mountain, Saint, Forget

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.583, Vintage

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