Best differences & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”

Ifs Knows Should Soul Ends Differences Satan The End Of The Day Faith In God

Author:Jess C Scott

“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.”

Heart Ends Passion Individual Differences Holy Solemnity

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.”

Mind Ends Action Goal Differences Results Ought Finals Satisfaction Supreme Contentment Our Actions Possessing

Author:Rene Descartes

“In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.”

Heart War Ends Political Lying Force Differences Amount Solve Civil War Political Differences

Author:Barack Obama

“So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.”

People Long Ends Helping Differences Justice Achieve Conflict Hatred Prosperity Defined Empowering Cycles Cooperation Our Relationship Suspicion Discord

Author:Barack Obama

“If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.”

Ifs Men Doe Ends Earth Stars Differences Sun Dog Eternity

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another.”

Men Way Littles Ends Use Evil Differences Memories Common Degrees Errors Fortune Reasoning Inclination Quickness Common Life

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.”

Ifs Mean Ends Father Differences Successful Hero Succeed Judgment Ethics Outcomes Patriotic Spells Founding Traitor Success Or Failure Rules For Radicals

Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“Now death is death! and yet is not one death Another death? Stabbing is not the same As shooting! Would you say a strangled man Was drown'd? The end is one, the means are many, And there the difference lies!”

Men Mean Ends Death Lying Differences Shooting Stabbing

Author:Victoria Laurie

“I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.”

People Believe Important Ends Country I Believe Differences Importance The End Of The Day Popularity Overestimate

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.”

Ifs Made Ends Play Turns Differences Productions Crap

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.”

Knows Want Trying Mean Important Ends Done Moments Bigs Turns Differences Impact Authenticity Big Things Small Things

Author:Gloria Steinem

“there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.”

Mind Believe Ends Facts Nations Differences Simple Family Successful Achieve Bears Don't Believe Size Behave Family Life Telescopes

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.”

People Ends Differences Baby Conversation

Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.”

Ends Law Religion Social Differences Fiction Aim Monstrosity

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Mind Different Ends Hard Found Enjoy Differences Cities Happenings Appreciate Towns Things Happen Small Town Open Mind Different Place Great Cities

Author:Logan Lerman

“Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.”

People Looks Different Ends Differences Like Me The End Of The Day Respect People

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.”

Want Ends Character Stories Action Actors Differences Roles Written Performances Scripts The End Of The Day Capture Good Story Good Character

Author:Andy Serkis

“In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't.”

Ends Differences One Thing Gave Up

Book:The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them

Source: The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them

“Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.”

People Ends Form Political Differences Land Promise Madness Crisis Remains Endure Temptation Genocide Utopia Multicultural Multicultural Society Political Promises

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.”

Ends Turns Differences Journey Destination Twists Twists And Turns

Author:Bob Menendez

“The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”

Inspirational Art Ends Hands Motivational Lying Artist Differences Vision Tools Edges Guides Crafts Visible Vehicle Artisans Arts And Crafts

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.”

Years Looks Ends Moments Waiting Differences Five Minutes Degrees Stealing Look Up Present Moment Cigarette Five Minutes Decency Smartphones

Author:Charlie Brooker

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.”

“All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.”

World Mean Ends Differences Pleasure Opinion Agree

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.”

Source: The Ascent to Truth

“We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.”

“The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.”

World Ends Leadership Differences Our Lives Journey Position Making A Difference Our World Position Of Power

Book:Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition

Source: Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition

“I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.”

Feels Ends Sometimes Differences Pure Generosity Selfishness Indulgence

Author:Nate Lowman

“We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.”

May Ends Differences Results Masters Workers Builder End Results

Author:Oscar Romero

“I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.”

Doe Ends Bigs Government Differences Particular Office Tables Critical Ministers Discussion Judgement Sat Prime Senior Prime Minister Bucks

Author:Tony Abbott

“I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.”

Ends Differences Rate Competitors Distribution Insignificant Baffled

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.”

Knows Want Made Ends Differences Known Careers Winner Nba Multiple Championship Jordan Nba Championships

Author:Mario Chalmers

“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.”

Ifs World Ends Bigs Happens Loses Differences Lines Half Economic Century Species Stability

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.”

Thinking Knows Humans Ends Political Politics Differences Capitalism Slavery Conservative Libertarian Meat Controlled Alas

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Firsts Persons Ends Use Fall Differences Chance Boys Learning Our Lives This World Circumstances One Way Second Chance

Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

“The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.”

People Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Kind Ends Stories Film Next Asks Differences Audience Week Television Tvs Return Directors Next Week

Author:Jason Reitman

“I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.”

Ends Happens Father Differences Millions Five Fame Performances Dollars Fifty The End Of The Day Million Dollars

Author:Tom Hardy

“Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.”

Firsts War Ends Home Winning Differences Election Candidates Troops Pledge Our Troops

Author:John McCain

“The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.”

Ends Problem Differences Civilization Presses Crash Bicycle

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!”

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