Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Rogers

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Frank Herbert

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Frank Herbert

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

George H. W. Bush

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

Jim Butcher

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

Jesse Ventura

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

Jazmine Sullivan

The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.

Jay Leno

What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.

Candice Swanepoel

I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

There is a difference between the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Cornelius received the Holy Ghost before he was baptized, which was the convincing power of God unto him of the truth of the Gospel, but he could not receive the gift of the Holy Ghost until after he was baptized. Had he not [been baptized], the Holy Ghost which convinced him of the truth of God, would have left him.

Kristin Hersh

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

Klaus Kinski

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Myles Munroe

We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

Mohsin Hamid

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

Milton Friedman

What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

Milton Friedman

Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

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.

Kim Harrison

And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!

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.