Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Theodor Adorno

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Terry Pratchett

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

Terry Pratchett

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Margaret Heffernan

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Margaret Fuller

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Michael Kors

The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for

Michael Lewis

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Michael Enzi

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else'.

Melinda Gates

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Michelle Forbes

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

Michele Bachmann

There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!

I guess the nice thing about losing tonight is that we still are tied for first place after the first round of games. We played hard tonight. We didn't lose the game. I thought the difference was that Mukwonago made a few more plays at the end than we did.

Imposing fines makes little difference to the rich.

I'm overwhelmed and frustrated. I don't know what the difference is.

Kimi Raikkonen

I missed it and I guess he ran a little wider and hit it so it was unfortunate for him and the team, but in the end I don't think it would have made any difference to the championship.

If just one kid sees where I've been and sees how far I've come, and that makes a difference in that kid's life, that's what matters to me.

I never looked at it as us having a monkey on our backs. We didn't prepare any differently for this game tonight than we did the other games with them. I think the big difference was that tonight, we executed our game plan as well as we could have.

The finish order, though we won't know all the minutiae, probably was not appreciable in the difference between first, second and third.

W. S. Gilbert

The findings of our research are pretty tripped out-the idea that one's perception, or at least one's perception, or at least one's perceptual discrimination, of the world may differ by visual field. Our paper is the first to propose that language may shape just half of our visual world.

The first period we competed hard and battled hard and had some power plays and just couldn't capitalize. In the second they had some power plays and they took advantage. That was the difference in the game. After the first period they just took it to us.

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.

Nate Berkus

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

Morgan Freeman

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

Milan Kundera

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

Mike Lee

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

Marcel Proust

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.