Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Hopefully our guys can see that if we get a sense of urgency sooner what a difference it would make in the game.

Hopefully, it will make a difference in keeping Brockton beautiful,

Honor is the difference between taking responsibility and owning up to it.

Paul Hawken

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.

Patrick Henry

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

Jurgen Habermas

Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.

Julia Quinn

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

Juan Williams

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

Juan Williams

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

Joseph Sobran

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Lilly Ledbetter

I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

Lillian Russell

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

Marian Wright Edelman

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Martin Lawrence

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

Mark Victor Hansen

Jim Rohn is the master motivator - he has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference and it sticks. I consider Jim the 'Chairman of Speakers.' The world would be a better place if everyone heard my friend, Jim Rohn.

Marguerite Duras

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Mike Brown

Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

Neil Cavuto

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

R. C. Sproul

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.

Preston Manning

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Nelson Mandela

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.