Differences Quotes - Page 71

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.

I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.

What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film, you just have to get one moment right; you're practically by yourself. And in theater, you actually have to have a relationship with the audience.

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

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.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference?

The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.