Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ken Blanchard

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

Ken Blanchard

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Ken Blanchard

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

Keanu Reeves

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

Kristen Johnston

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

Kristen Stewart

Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else,

Kristen Stewart

I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.

Kinky Friedman

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

Orel Hershiser

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

Oprah Winfrey

People have power to make a difference in their lives.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Olivia Thirlby

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

Oliver North

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

Oliver Goldsmith

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

Margaret Atwood

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Kevin Mitnick

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

Ken Paulson

That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?

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.

Margaret Atwood

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Lauren Oliver

You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.

Larry the Cable Guy

I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person.

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. Frank Baum

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.

P. J. O'Rourke

If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.

Paul Stanley

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

Paul Hudson

It's not always the things we do that make the biggest difference in our lives; it's often the things we avoid doing that have the biggest effect.

Paul Hogan

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!