Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Norville

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Dennis Kucinich

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

Elizabeth Olsen

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

Barbara Mikulski

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Ayn Rand

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

Ayn Rand

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Bertrand Russell

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

Bertrand Russell

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

C. S. Lewis

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

C. S. Lewis

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Craig Ferguson

The difference between a broadcaster and a host is that a host tells stories and dumb jokes, but a broadcaster can articulate deeper like, you know - things and stuff.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Alfred Stieglitz

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Alfred Nobel

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Alfred Marshall

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Alexander Alekhine

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

Alex Campbell

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Aldous Huxley

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

Albert Einstein

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

Ali MacGraw

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

Aaron McGruder

But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

Banksy

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

Andy Goldsworthy

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.