Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fallows

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

Laurence J. Peter

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Laura Hall

There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

Liev Schreiber

Its the difference between instinct and intuition,

Libba Bray

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

George Gershwin

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Johnny Unitas

There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

Johnny Unitas

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Johnny Damon

In a lot of close games, I can make a difference with my speed.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

Malcolm X

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

Malcolm X

Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem.

Mahatma Gandhi

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

John C. Maxwell

Do you want to come climb the transformationa l leadership mountain with me? Your first step begins with DESIRE. Do you want to make a difference in the lives of others? If your answer is yes, you can be that agent of change you wish to see around the world!

John C. Maxwell

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Genevieve Gorder

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

Kevin Constantine

The entire division is so tight that there's not much difference between any of the teams. As an organization, we have pride in what we do and want to play as well as we can in every single game left. Still, our main motive right now is playoff preparation.

Richard Jefferson

The guy (O'Neal) missed four shots, including free throws. The difference was that he was playing at home. A lot of things tend to go your way when you're at home.

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.

Meg Cabot

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

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Mary E. Pearson

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

Kenneth Grahame

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out