Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Roberto Clemente

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.

Sarah Dessen

You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.

Sarah Dessen

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

Sandra Bullock

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

Roseanne Barr

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

Warren G. Bennis

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Tupac Shakur

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

Valerie Trierweiler

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

Valerie Trierweiler

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.

Van Morrison

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

Upton Sinclair

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

Tyra Banks

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Caroline Knapp

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Ted Koppel

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Jonathan Haidt

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

Jonathan Edwards

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Emma Watson

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

John Hodgman

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.