Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Tabarrok

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Alexa Chung

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

Alex Kapranos

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

E. L. Konigsburg

The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

E. O. Wilson

If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

E. M. Forster

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Douglas Preston

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Dweezil Zappa

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

Dalai Lama

There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone else's. So we have to take seriously our concern for all of humanity. When we focus on our individuality, humanity inevitably suffers. And once humanity suffers, each one of us will also suffer.

Dalai Lama

There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

Dalai Lama

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

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.

David Berg

There is a difference between being willing to go to Heaven and wanting to stay on Earth-and wanting to go to Heaven while being willing to stay on Earth.

Daryl Hall

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.

Danny Brown

Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!

Daniel Barenboim

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

Danica Patrick

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

Condoleezza Rice

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

Condoleezza Rice

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

Condoleezza Rice

Differences can be a strength.

Cleveland Amory

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

Dan Quayle

While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.

Dan Quayle

Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.

Dan Eldon

There is little difference in being lost and exploring.

Cornel West

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

Cornel West

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

Cormac McCarthy

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

Cormac McCarthy

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Clifford Stoll

There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.