Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Weldon Johnson

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Bruno Tonioli

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.

Bill Moyers

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

Cass McCombs

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

Carre Otis

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

Chaim Potok

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

Chaim Potok

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Chaim Weizmann

We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

Charles Rangel

I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.

Charles Marion Russell

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

Beth Moore

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

Beth Moore

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

Bob Marley

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Bill Vaughan

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.

Bill Vaughan

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

Bill Vaughan

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Bob Hartley

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.

Bill Frist

Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

Betty Friedan

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

Bennett Cerf

The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

Bill Gates

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

Anthony Trollope

There is such a difference between life and theory.

Diane Duane

Belief made no difference to the truth.

Demetri Martin

There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool.

Dean Koontz

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

Dean Koontz

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

Craig Ferguson

The difference between a broadcaster and a host is that a host tells stories and dumb jokes, but a broadcaster can articulate deeper like, you know - things and stuff.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

B. F. Skinner

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

Asghar Farhadi

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.