Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Moyers

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

Cass McCombs

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

Carre Otis

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

Carre Otis

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carlos Castaneda

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

C. S. Lewis

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a hectic end to a night on the town and a leisurely one.

When you're trying to rebuild a program and gain respect, wins like that give you credibility right out of the gate. It makes a huge difference recruiting-wise. It's not the same old Kansas.

We wanted to win and so did they. The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Horace Greeley

We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.

Abba Eban

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Aasif Mandvi

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Aaron Sorkin

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

Charles de Lint

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Cher

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

Charlize Theron

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

Chaim Potok

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

Chaim Potok

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Chaim Weizmann

We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

Charles Rangel

I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.

Charles Marion Russell

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

Beth Moore

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

Beth Moore

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

Bob Marley

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Bill Vaughan

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

Bill Vaughan

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Bob Hartley

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.

Madeleine Albright

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

Madeleine Albright

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Madeleine Albright

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

Neil Burger

I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.