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Difference Quotes
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
115
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
90
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
73
"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."
70
"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."
63
"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
62
"I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution."
55
"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine."
43
"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat."
43
"I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now."
36
"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
31
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
30
"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."
28
"The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it."
28
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
27
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
27
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
27
"George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil."
26
"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not."
25
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
25
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."
24
"The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity."
24
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
24
"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."
24
"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
23
"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
22
"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
21
"With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track."
21
"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."
21
"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not."
21
"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
21
"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."
21
"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."
20
"I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were."
20
"A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference."
20
"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
20
"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!"
20
"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
20
"What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself."
19
"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
19
"The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better."
19
"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."
19
"I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference."
18
"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."
18
"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."
18
"I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."
18
"Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned."
18
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
18
"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
18
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