Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Murdock

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.

Mignon McLaughlin

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

John Ruskin

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

Meg Cabot

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Maya Angelou

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Maxim Gorky

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Mary Stuart Masterson

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

Mary Fallin

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Mary E. Pearson

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

Lee Child

I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Petra Stunt

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

Peter Drucker

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

Martin Scorsese

I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share.

Marlee Matlin

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

Marlene Dietrich

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Marisha Pessl

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

Marisha Pessl

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

Marissa Mayer

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Marjane Satrapi

Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.

Maria Sharapova

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

Megan Gallagher

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Megan McCafferty

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Max Lucado

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Max Lucado

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Max Lucado

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Maureen McCormick

I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

Maya Angelou

To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.

Maya Angelou

Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

Mario Draghi

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.