Famous Quotes & Sayings

It used to be that as long as you worked hard and lived an honest life, you can have a family and a house. It doesn't seem like that would make a difference now.

Lleyton Hewitt

It won't have any difference on my schedule.

They will be just as hard to play as the English, ... Our players have a big respect for Croatia. They are technically refined and able to make the difference with an individual gesture.

Matt Watson

It makes a huge difference in the service we can offer. We can say it's a 15-minute drive time and we pay a premium to say that.

Noam Chomsky

Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.

Jodi Picoult

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Evander Holyfield

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

Jurgen Habermas

Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.

Marvin Bower

The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

L. Neil Smith

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Oprah Winfrey

The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.

Margaret Atwood

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.

B. F. Skinner

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

Asghar Farhadi

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

Avi Arad

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

Bernie Siegel

If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.

Marty Feldman

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Terry Pratchett

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Joseph Heller

They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?

Joy Harjo

My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

Paul McCartney

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

Paul Valery

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Katharine Hepburn

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

Elvis Presley

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Joan Chen

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

John Milton

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

The late start was really not a huge problem. The difference was minimal.

The kids were focused, intense. The big difference is that everybody did their jobs, and they trusted everybody else to do their jobs.

Johnny Damon

The difference between the offers ... it just wasn't tough. Most people would have done the same thing.

Helena Bonham Carter

Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.

John Locke

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.