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Quotes About Difference

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
~ John Donne
I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.
~ Tim Crane
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
~ George Bernard Shaw
difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality
~ Maggie MacLure
We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind." Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, "Or imagining that we do.
~ Jaq D. Hawkins
Never again will your footsteps b repeated upon this earth. your life is the life that can make a difference.
~ Sravani Saha Nakhro
Let us be kind to make a difference in someone's life.
~ Debasish Mridha
To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.
~ Gary Inbinder
You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.
~ Germany Kent
The difference between reading a good book and Facebook, is that a good book is always hard to put down, whereas on Facebook it's become too easy to put anyone down.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.
~ Shel Silverstein
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.
~ Audre Lorde
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.
~ Eavan Boland
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.
~ Pattiann Rogers
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.
~ Matthea Harvey
Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.
~ Cate Marvin
There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range
~ Mpho Leteng
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
~ Jack Layton