Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Thaddeus Stevens

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

Terry Pratchett

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Margaret Heffernan

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Margaret Fuller

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Michael Kors

The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for

Michael Lewis

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Michael Enzi

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else'.

Melinda Gates

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Michelle Forbes

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

Michele Bachmann

There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!

Megan Fox

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Max Lucado

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Max Lucado

There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.

Max Lucado

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Max Lucado

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Maureen McCormick

I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

Matt Reeves

What I thought was so great about Rise [of the Planet of the Apes ] was that it wasn't a retelling; it was an entering of the universe at a different point. So it's Planet of the Apes. We already know the ending. There's no mystery in that! It becomes Planet of the Apes. So it's not about what is at the end; it's about how did we get there? And that enabled something that was totally fresh, which was an ape-point-of-view movie.

Maya Angelou

To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.

Maya Angelou

Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

I always like an environment where theres lots of women and everyones different.

Meek Mill

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

Meg Cabot

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Meg Cabot

But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Maya Angelou

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Maxim Gorky

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Mary Stuart Masterson

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

Mary Fallin

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Pat Metheny

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.