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.

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.

Sarah Dessen

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

Sarah Dessen

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

Sarah Dessen

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

Terry Pratchett

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

Lee Strasberg

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Julian Simon

Human beings create more than they destroy.

Karen Joy Fowler

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science