Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert McNamara

There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

Robert Lanza

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

Robert Heller

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Robert H. Schuller

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

Robert B. Parker

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Robert Anton Wilson

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Ricki Lake

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

Richard M. Nixon

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

Richard M. Nixon

Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.

Rich Mullins

Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.

Ray Winstone

The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.

Reba McEntire

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

Robert De Niro

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

River Phoenix

I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.

Richard Rodriguez

The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family.

Richard Rohr

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

Tucker Carlson

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

Sylvia Plath

How many different deaths I can die?

Swami Vivekananda

There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

Roy Orbison

Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world!

Roy Lichtenstein

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

Samantha Mathis

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

Tom Petty

You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.

Tom Peters

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

Tom Robbins

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Tom Robbins

Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.

Tom Leykis

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

Tom Landry

There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.

Tom Feeney

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

Stephen Moyer

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

Stephen Spender

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Stephen Sondheim

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.