Differences Quotes - Page 14

• If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

  Tamora Pierce

  Lying, Hands, Details

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• For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Writing, Boys

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.26, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say: Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.

  Chip Kidd

  Cousin, Sorry, Believe

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• They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Crazy

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• The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Piano, Practice

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• Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Opposites, Imagination

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.57, Macmillan

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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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• There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Twenties, Literature, Nine

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.283, Spectra

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• Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

  Martha Stewart

  Running, Jobs, Queens

  FaceBook post by Martha Stewart from Apr 04, 2016

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• People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

  Sharon Stone

  People, Making A Difference, Behavior

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• A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fun, Writing, Brain

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• Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Compassion, People

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• Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

  James Surowiecki

  Making A Difference, Tasks, Fiscal Policy

  "The Stimulus Strategy". www.newyorker.com. February 25, 2008.

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• In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

  James Surowiecki

  America, People, Germany

  "No Work and No Play". www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2005.

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• I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

  Candice Swanepoel

  People, One Day, Poaching

  Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

  James Taylor

  Balls, Made, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Funny, Beauty, Nature

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Generations, Literature

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

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• The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Insane, Locks, Lock Up

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

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• The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

  Edward Thorndike

  Real, Men, Source

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.36, Routledge

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• I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Exercise, Making A Difference, How You Feel

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  Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Patriotic, Equality, Democracies Have

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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• The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Men, Deeds And Words

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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