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Quotes About Difference

The single most important difference between early markets and mainstream markets is that the former are willing to take responsibility for piecing together the whole product (in return for getting a jump on their competition), whereas the latter are not.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
It makes a great difference by what path we come to a knowledge of certain things. If we begin in our youth with metaphysics and religion we can easily proceed along a series of rational conclusions that will lead us to the immortality of the soul. Not every other path will lead to this, at least not quite so easily.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I don't see how My Fair Lady and Frankenstein are the same. Oh, wait a minute. Yes I do.
~ George Axelrod
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
~ George Deukmejian
The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
~ George Deukmejian
George grimaced. "Jack is spoiled. Things are hard for him, but he isn't the only one who doesn't have it easy. He gets away with crazy things because he's a changeling and he's different. Jack could behave better, but he stopped trying. He decided that he's worthless and that nothing he could do would make any difference.
~ Ilona Andrews
When one of the security people asked if Rogan had threatened Forsberg, the Scourge of Mexico looked at him for a moment and condescended to explain that he hadn't threatened anyone. He had been moving thru the hallways with a purpose because he had someplace to be and if they had a problem identifying the difference between that and him actually threatening someone, he would be happy to demonstrate. They decided not to question him further after that.
~ Ilona Andrews
You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look--
~ Iris Murdoch
Cuál es la diferencia que existe entre yo y estas pequeñas y humildes criaturas? La araña teje su tela, no puede hacer otra cosa. Yo tejo mi conciencia, esta charlatana compulsiva, esta voz vaga y errabunda que pronto enmudecerá. Pero todo es un sueño. La realidad es demasiado dura.
~ Iris Murdoch
I felt a tenderness for her that was deep and pure, a miracle of love preserved. How clear it flowed, that fountain from the far past. Yes, we must quietly collect our past, collect it up with tacit understanding, without any intensity or drama, blaming and exonerating ourselves with a difference. And how wonderfully possible it seemed, this silent process of redemption
~ Iris Murdoch
E por aí vão, metidos nessa batalha, testando forças e afirmando um ao outro que não discordam fundamentalmente mesmo quando há um abismo entre seus posicionamentos, ou ainda discutindo violentamente em cima de diferenças de ênfase mínimas e pedantes. Em outras palavras, estão agindo com o perfeitos estudantes de merda.
~ Irvine Welsh
These foreign cunts've goat trouble wi the Queen's fuckin English, ken.
~ Irvine Welsh
Vincent took them in the full spirit of friendship which knows that the difference between giving and taking is purely temporal.
~ Irving Stone
Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but I was right and they were wrong and that made the difference.
~ Isaac Asimov
La diferencia no es grande. Uno puede definir un robot como una «máquina computerizada» o como una «computadora móvil». Se puede considerar una computadora como un «robot inmóvil».
~ Isaac Asimov
but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem this gave her a sense of pride, as it added to her view of herself as a distant, mysterious artist vaguely superior to the rest of mortals.
~ Isabel Allende
the national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.
~ Isabel Allende
decidió que era en los detalles donde estaba la diferencia entre un caballero y un patán
~ Isabel Allende
Es inútil, Nicolás. ¿No ves que yo tengo el alma muy vieja y tú todavía eres un niño? Siempre serás un niño —le dijo.
~ Isabel Allende
That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
~ Ian Mckellen
When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company.
~ Paul Rodgers
The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.
~ Aja Brown