Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Mark Twain

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

Mark Twain

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Martin Gore

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

Martin Gardner

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Mark Mobius

China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

Matt Cameron

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

Matt Damon

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

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.

Marvin J. Ashton

The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

Mark Twain

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

Mark Twain

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Nicholas Meyer

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

Nicholas Negroponte

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

Marian Wright Edelman

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Martin Lawrence

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

Mark Victor Hansen

Jim Rohn is the master motivator - he has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference and it sticks. I consider Jim the 'Chairman of Speakers.' The world would be a better place if everyone heard my friend, Jim Rohn.

Marguerite Duras

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Mike Brown

Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

Neil Cavuto

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

R. C. Sproul

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.

Preston Manning

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

Juan Williams

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

Juan Williams

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

Joseph Sobran

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Lilly Ledbetter

I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

Lillian Russell

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

Larry Wall

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.