Differences Quotes - Page 39

• Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

  Christopher Pike

  Hate, Heart, And Love

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• "I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Regret, Smart

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, June 16, 2009.

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• if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Deuces, Syntax

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “Vanity Fair, etc”, p.92

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• You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Hate, Brain

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

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• It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

  Audre Lorde

  Order, House, Tools

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference between allowing an animal to ravage you and allowing yourself to be ravaged. One is common. The other is art. It is planned. Crafted, even. Only capable of being done by a master.

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Mean, Animal

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.38, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Good Friend, Boys

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Fly on the Wall”, p.35, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

  Stephen Hawking

  Winning, Religion, Atheism

  "Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. June 7, 2010.

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• You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

  John Steinbeck

  Looks, Ifs, Knows

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.175, Hamilton Books

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• The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  Robert Graves (1972). “Poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

  Aristotle

  Essentials, Absence, Whole

  Aristotle, Preston Herschel Epps (1942). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

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• Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

  Bell Hooks

  Meaningful, Moving, Safety

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge

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• Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

  Bill Watterson

  Inability, Praying, Hobbes

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• You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

  Kate Morton

  Life, Princess, Pages

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

  Henry Ford

  Hands, Profound, Devil

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• The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There’d be riots in the streets about the people we’re killing. And yet because it’s Obama, and he’s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

  Penn Jillette

  Reading, Numbers, People

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• We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Growing Up, Cheater

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• There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

  Toni Morrison

  Hard Work, Writing, Pay

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.170, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Let go of me, Celt, or I’ll rip your arm off. And you know what? I don’t care if I lose both of mine in the process. That’s the difference between us. Pain is my friend and ally. You fear it. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.546, Macmillan

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• The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Maturity, Judging

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.254, Macmillan

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• It looks to me as though these politics mean Serbs, Croats and Muslims. But they are all people. They are all the same. They all look like people, there's no difference. They all have arms, legs and heads, they walk and talk, but now there's "something" that wants to make them different.

  Zlata Filipović

  Mean, People, Different

  Zlata Filipović (1994). “Le journal de Zlata”, Viking Adult

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• No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Jesus, Law, Names

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “The Book of Daniel: A Novel”, p.184, Random House

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