Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

H. L. Mencken

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

Jill Scott

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Estelle Ramey

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

Estella Warren

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

Esther Hicks

If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

Esther Hicks

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

Ernest Hemingway

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

Ethel Merman

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Erwin Chemerinsky

Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities.

Erwin Rommel

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

Eriq La Salle

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I dont want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So thats a big difference.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Florynce Kennedy

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

Ferran Adria

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

Henry Miller

The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but with profundities. The solid ground on which the scientist pretends to rest gives way, in astrology, to imponderables.

Gina Lollobrigida

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

Gillian Flynn

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gerhard Richter

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

James D. Watson

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

Jamaica Kincaid

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

Jacques Derrida

In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, and classificatory inventory of a language.

J. William Fulbright

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

Isaac Asimov

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

Isaac Asimov

If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?

Isaac Asimov

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Isaac Asimov

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

Irene Rosenfeld

How you manage change can make all the difference.

Georges Braque

I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.

George Saunders

I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.

Jim Hightower

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Jim Henson

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

Jenny Slate

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.