Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lillian Russell

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

Larry Wall

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

L. Neil Smith

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

P. J. O'Rourke

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

P. J. O'Rourke

Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.

P. J. O'Rourke

If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.

Paul Stanley

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

Paul Hudson

It's not always the things we do that make the biggest difference in our lives; it's often the things we avoid doing that have the biggest effect.

Paul Johnson

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

Oscar Wilde

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

For the first time, we've shown that the difference in the rate of molecular evolution between humans and chimpanzees is very small, but significant, suggesting the evolution of human-specific life history traits is very recent.

For them to shoot 28 free throws was the difference in the ballgame. I think we played pretty well all throughout the game. They just had more opportunities at the free-throw line than we did.

For the developer, it makes all the difference in the world.

Ilka Chase

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

Idries Shah

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

I. King Jordan

Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

I. F. Stone

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

Huston Smith

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Gregory Maguire

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

Gregory Maguire

Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.

Gloria Steinem

There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.

Gerard Depardieu

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

Harry Redknapp

If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference!

J. K. Rowling

I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.

Nathan Fillion

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

Kathleen Wynne

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

Katie Couric

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

Kitty Kelley

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Kitty Kelley

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

Ken Blanchard

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

Ken Blanchard

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Ken Blanchard

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

Mark Twain

There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.