Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

Confucius

It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.

Dane Cook

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

Damian Kulash

I can't imagine everyone on the planet would want to hear something from me. If I thought they'd listen, I'd probably ask them to try to be nicer to each other, to try to be less scared of their differences.

Curtis Sittenfeld

And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

Cyndi Lauper

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

David Limbaugh

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.

David Letterman

According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.

David Letterman

I heard some good news today, the FBI and the CIA are going to start cooperating. They are going to start working together. And if you don't know the difference between the FBI and the CIA, the FBI bungles domestic crime, the CIA bungles foreign crime.

Dalai Lama

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Deval Patrick

Be present - and see what a difference it makes in your lives and in the world.

Desmond Tutu

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

Angelique Kidjo

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

Cindy Sheehan

I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.

Cilla Black

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

Chuck Yeager

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

Chuck Smith

There's a difference between losing your salvation and leaving your salvation. If you lose something, you don't know where to find it. You can't lose your salvation because you always know where to find it; you can only leave it.

Chuck Smith

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.

Anthea Turner

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

Andy Stanley

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Andy Stanley

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

Andy Stanley

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

Andy Warhol

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

Andrew Scott

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Angel Haze

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

Anatole France

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Amanda Peet

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't.

Anita Roddick

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

Andrew Young

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Chuck Palahniuk

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

Chuck D.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

Christopher Walken

A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.