Quotes About Difference

Eight dollars a week or a million a year—what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

For what, after all, is the difference between a memory and a fantasy? Are not both a succession of imprecisely rendered images further obscured by imprecisely chosen words and animated only by the wistful effort of one's imagination? And who is to say that a vividly imagined moment of happiness is not, in the end, more enriching to the spirit than a hazy semi-recollection of some pallid pastime?

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

Ninguna vida se parece a otra!... Cada historia es una historia precisamente porque no existe otra igual.

the place we return to is never the same place we left.

Porque cuando ves esos cuadros tú también quieres verte así, quieres creer que eres una criatura completamente distinta a las demás, sin igual, particular y extraña.

en el país de los infieles francos todos los perros tienen dueño. Al parecer los pasean por las calles arrastrándolos con cadenas al cuello como si fueran los más miserables esclavos. Dicen que además introducen a esos pobres perros a sus casas y que incluso los meten en sus camas. ... No son cosas que los francos puedan comprender el que los perros paseemos en manadas y gavillas por la calles de nuestro Estambul...

But as we all know, the place we return to is never the same place we left.

The little difference between what we earn and what we spend is capital.

Natasha's dance is one such opening. At its heart is an encounter between two entirely different worlds: the European culture of the upper classes and the Russian culture of the peasantry.

The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not have my condition. You mean it isn't ugly?

who would expect less? she said. You're a Wiggin. Whatever that means. He said. It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths

That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn't care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth—when the truth was gettable.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.