Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Edward Abbey

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

Atul Gawande

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

Aristotle

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Aristotle

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Aristotle

The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

Ben Horowitz

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

Alexandre Dumas

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

Robert Klein

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives

Laura Dern

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

Jaswant Singh

Let us see what difference there is between his utterances and his actions.

Thomas Friedman

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Giles Foden

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

The political world now recognizes that there is a gay and lesbian vote. Our numbers are significant and we can make a difference in these races.

Brittany Snow

If I don't like what I'm wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you're wearing your style, and it's something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it.

Jose Cuevas

We have made a difference and I think this will be the same.

Neill Blomkamp

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

Banksy

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

Bonnie Tyler

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Corey Taylor

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Rob Blake

We had a quick one early on but the second one was a major one, it lasted a minute. The big difference in their 5-on-3? They made the play.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Alfred Stieglitz

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Alfred Nobel

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Alfred Marshall

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Alexander Alekhine

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

Alex Campbell

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.