Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

William James

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

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.

Robyn

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

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.

Vita Sackville-West

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Viola Spolin

The unknown is where we go to find new things and intuition is how we find them.

William Wordsworth

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

William James

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

Van Morrison

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

Vladimir Putin

Thus, in view of what I have said, we could not officially hack [Hillary's Clinton mail]. It would require certain intuition and knowledge of the U.S. domestic policy peculiarities. I am not sure that even our experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have such intuition.

Sam Walton

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

Alan Cohen

Less rules, more intuition.

Mario Vazquez

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

Princess Diana

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

Kevin Lowe

Killer instinct is putting teams away and not making mistakes.

H. Hart

His natural instinct took over. He was a little off today, but he makes big plays.

David Greene

With most people they really don't want to get hit. Because it hurts. Your natural instinct is to protect yourself. In football, you can't do that. When you try to protect yourself, you're more likely to get hurt.

Peter Arnett

He had the microphone first, the instinct to broadcast, to be there. He didn't hesitate. He scooped the world.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

Zachary Quinto

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Chris Samuels

It has to be instincts because he's been around a long time.

Courteney Cox

In this movie, I feel like I didn't notice Monica in it at all, ... Your instincts would probably be to think about Monica, but I have to make sure you don't.