Difference Quotes

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

If you care enough, you make a difference.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.