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Quotes about Difference


Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it—or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

Jean de la Bruyere

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Libbie Fudim

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

Georg Hegel

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Henry David Thoreau

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

James Baldwin

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

James Ouida

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Gioacchino Rossini

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott

It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Coach Bear Bryant

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Stephen Covey

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene Cloutier.

Eugene Cloutier

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

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

Oscar Wilde

What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.

Mike Ditka

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

Mary Astor

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

William Hazlitt

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.

E. M. Kelly

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.

Pete Seeger

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Robert Frost

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

J. August Strindberg

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Finley Peter Dunne

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