Differences Quotes - Page 37

• The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  Heart, World

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• …the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  War, Buddhism, Reality

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• He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Politician, Chimpanzees, Enthusiastic

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• So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.

  Derrick Jensen

  Rocks, Views, Rivers

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay (2011). “What We Leave Behind”, p.274, Seven Stories Press

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• Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

  Maxim Gorky

  Political, Function, Physiological

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• A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

  Lev Grossman

  Hurt, Strong, Pain

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.173, Penguin

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• No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!

  Shel Silverstein

  Light, Yellow, White

  Shel Silverstein, “No Difference”

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• I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Country, Race

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

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• What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

  Sherman Alexie

  Pain, Dad, Drunk

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• That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

  Christopher Moore

  Sarcasm, Irony, Spontaneous

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.

  Garth Stein

  Eye, Past, Doe

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• A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Hands, White, People

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• [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Angel, Solitude, Devil

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.305, A&C Black

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• when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.

  Julia Gregson

  Race, Sky, Meditation

  Julia Gregson (2009). “East of the Sun: A Novel”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Journey, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.

  J.R. Ward

  Causes, Right Now, Fangs

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.291, Penguin

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• The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Doe, Different

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• So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Interesting, Stories

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• Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Adversity, Broken, Stronger

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.

  Yukio Mishima

  Thinking, Ignorant, Century

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• Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Different, Looks

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• Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Writing, Discipline, Pants

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• The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.

  Bear Grylls

  Giving Up, Ordinary, Different

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• What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Thinking, Light

  "Help, Thanks, Wow". Book by Anne Lamott, June 20, 2013.

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• Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Jobs, Night, Dating

  "Seinfeld: Good News, Bad News". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1989.

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