Famous Quotes & Sayings

The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.

Bill Walsh

The difference between the Patriots and those Steelers teams is that there were other great teams in the AFC back then, like Miami and Oakland,

Johnny Damon

The difference between the offers ... it just wasn't tough. Most people would have done the same thing.

The difference between them and us is that when they took off, they were willing to die,

The difference between the haves and the have-nots is great.

The difference between the first and second games was passing and serving,

The difference between the '80s and '90s and now is that inflation and interest rates are already low.

Joey Harrington

The difference between teams that win and lose in this league is confidence.

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

George Moore

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

Maxine Kingston

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

The difference between (Huizar) when he was junior and now is night and day.

Hubert Humphrey

The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy when properly aged.

The difference between gold and silver is so big it's hard to put into words.

The difference between Division One and the Premiership is that you have to concentrate on your opponents more,

The difference between being successful and not successful is where you're missing -- over the plate or off the plate. I missed over the plate too often last year.

Edward T. Hall

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

Hermann Maier

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

Hermann Hesse

Friendship is identification and difference

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

Henri Poincare

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

Henri Nouwen

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

Henri Nouwen

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Henri Nouwen

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

Henry Cloud

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

Helene D. Gayle

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Helena Bonham Carter

Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.

Helen Clark

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

Johann Lamont

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

Kevyn Aucoin

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

Kerry Washington

I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic violence and violence against women, this felt like such a tangible way to make a difference.

Jonathan Sacks

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.