Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rene Descartes

There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

Rene Descartes

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Thomas S. Monson

You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

Thomas Sowell

The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.

Thomas Sowell

One of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that we at least know what the Democrats stand for, whether we agree with it or not. But, for Republicans, we have to guess

Thomas Sowell

The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

Tim Duncan

I just hope to make a difference.

Tibor Kalman

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Sam Ewing

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Harris

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

Sam Harris

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

Sam Harris

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

S. E. Hinton

The difference is that was then, this is now.

Russell M. Nelson

Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

Ronald Reagan

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

Ronald Reagan

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

S. Truett Cathy

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

S. Truett Cathy

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

Roy H. Williams

The value of an item—in the mind of a consumer—is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Ron Perlman

None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.

Roger Zelazny

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

Susan Sarandon

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

Sunny Murray

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

Suge Knight

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Studs Terkel

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Rudy Giuliani

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

Ruth Messinger

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

Ruggiero Ricci

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

Robyn

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

Roberto Clemente

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

Roberto Unger

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.