Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

George Takei

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

George Takei

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

George Soros

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

George R. R. Martin

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

George Carlin

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

Gene Simmons

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

Frederick Douglass

...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.

Frank Stella

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

Fernando Pessoa

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

Ferdinand Marcos

We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Ferdinand de Saussure

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Felix Frankfurter

While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

Faye Dunaway

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

Faran Tahir

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

Francis Bacon

Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and Policy, which is the most immersed ... , yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

Antawn Jamison

I wanted them to learn about the difference experiences that I went through, and the different things that go on in my life

I wanted them to come away with the feeling that they could make a positive difference in the world.

I've got too many things in my life to worry about than him playing dominoes in here three years ago, ... It don't make no difference to me at all.

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.

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.

Kelly Clarkson

And that's true for most of the people from the show. You don't hear a lot about them afterwards. But I think the difference is that I'd already done stuff. . . . I really know what I want, I know what I want to do and I'm working with great people.

Dave Roberts

A real difference is, there were no expectations before, and now there are. People aren't just satisfied with their team winning a division championship. They expect the Padres and Chargers to do more. Personally, I think that's a good thing.

Practically speaking, ... I don't know that it makes any difference to the kid in the dorm room. That genie is already out of the bottle.

Perhaps the most striking finding is that no difference in sodium intake was observed between those who received advice... and those who did not.

Terry Pendleton

Really, he just spread his stance out, shortened his stride and a little patience always helps. That's been the major difference with him.