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I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.

Quote by Robert Hayden about people

Love is the rough exaggeration of the difference between a person and somebody else.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw about love, people

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Quote by Charles Babbage about tools, limits

I can usually tell the difference between a short story idea and a novel-length one when someone describes the idea to me.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about idea

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about rightness, things, time

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Quote by Francis Bacon about happiness, wisdom, man

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Quote by Francis Bacon about moral, self-control, man

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Quote by Kathy Acker about question

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Quote by Douglas Adams about bad, things, impossible

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about influence

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Quote by Joey Adams

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Quote by Scott Adams about nation, intelligence, people

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

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about genius, talent, man, time, people

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Quote by George W. Bush about dictatorship, nation, peace

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Quote by Winston Churchill about attitude, things

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Quote by Charles Dickens about creation, things

I pay tax wherever I work. The only difference with my situation is I'm resident in the Bahamas. Everywhere I work I pay the tax.

Quote by Sean Connery about work

There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!

Quote by Sean Connery about problems

I never said, “I want to be alone”. I only said, “I want to be left alone”. There is all the difference.

Quote by Greta Garbo

It's o-nly when we get in the studio that we have creative differences. And I think that works to the benefit of the band.

Quote by Alex Van Halen