Differences Quotes - Page 53

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

There's a difference between over-training and over-exercising. Over-training can be you're trying to do something at high performance, but when you're over-exercising it just means that you don't have a life. And there are obviously people who go to that extreme.

People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead.

God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else's isn't.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today.

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today, I can die for something. My way, my choice.

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.

Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.

Go on... make a difference.