Difference Quotes

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

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.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.