Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Max Lucado

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Max Lucado

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Maureen McCormick

I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

Neal Stephenson

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

Neale Donald Walsch

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

Neale Donald Walsch

Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.

Nate Lowman

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity . It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Madeleine L'Engle

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

Lynne Cheney

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Lou Gehrig

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

John Green

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

Jonathan Martin

It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

Jonathan Haidt

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

Jonah Goldberg

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

Jon Stewart

At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want to do The Daily Show and I'd love to turn it into an abstract musical.' I like the format and the chance to satirize the news.

Kate Bosworth

I love indoor cycling - it has made a really big difference. I feel a lot skinnier. It's kind of the ultimate cardio.

Justin Timberlake

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

Julie Delpy

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion. It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

Judith McNaught

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Judith Martin

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Phil McGraw

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Pervez Musharraf

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

Peter Marshall

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

R. A. Salvatore

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

Prince Philip

Can you tell the difference between them?

Phillips Brooks

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust in, Him who has released us.

Philip Yancey

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

Mickey Rivers

I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

Naveen Andrews

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.

Naveen Jain

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

Paul Davies

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.