Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Hirshfield

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

Jane Hirshfield

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

Jane Elliott

We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

Jane Campion

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

Jane Goodall

Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.

Jane Goodall

We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.

Jane Goodall

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

Jane Goodall

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

Jane Goodall

One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

Jane Fonda

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

Jane Fonda

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

Jamie Dimon

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

James Weldon Johnson

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

James E. Faust

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.

Philip Russell

We're assembling documents. These are construction projects, and obviously there's a great difference of opinion as to what occurred on these contracts.

We're an immature team and you saw the difference tonight. We have a lot of things to fix before we face the Mountaineers.

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

The real difference is everybody is starting in the same place. In the past, we started in 68 different places.

Karl Hobbs

There ain't a whole lot of difference between the talent of my team and these teams. That's what makes it so amazing, what these guys have accomplished.

Rand Paul

There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.

The Palm kid really hurt us. We really had a hard time with him and he made a big difference with the way he played.

Benjamin Franklin

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

Benjamin Franklin

An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."

Ben Bradlee

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

Ben Affleck

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

Barbara Tuchman

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Arthur Golden

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

Arthur C. Clarke

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

Anton Chekhov

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

bell hooks

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.