It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
~By Erskine Bowles ~
It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
~By Tom Selleck ~
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
~By Laura Miller ~
I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.
~By Maria Sharapova ~
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
~By Roger Waters ~
There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.
~By Robert Mueller ~
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
~By Chris Evert ~
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
~By Reggie Jackson ~
There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.
~By Liam Fox ~
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
~By George Deukmejian ~
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.
~By Amy Irving ~
I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.
~By Jerry Bruckheimer ~
Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
~By Ellen Glasgow ~
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
~By Jerry Costello ~
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
~By Kate Mulgrew ~
If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
~By Lance Loud ~
I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
~By Allan Sherman ~
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
~By Rogers Hornsby ~
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
~By Martina McBride ~
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.
~By Fred Thompson ~
There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.
~By Shirley Knight ~
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
~By Mary Chesnut ~
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.
~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
~By Scott Adams ~
Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.
~By Ron Moody ~
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
~By Khalil Gibran ~
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
~By Christian Bale ~
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
~By Mark Twain ~
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
~By Pierre Salinger ~
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
~By Ricky Skaggs ~
Race differences show up early in life.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
~By Sean Kinney ~
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
~By Charles de Lint ~
A major difference between witches and psychotherapists is that witches see the mental health of women as having important political consequences.
~By Naomi R. Goldenberg ~
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
~By W. H. Auden ~
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.
~By Anastacia ~
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
~By Fiona Apple ~
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
~By Ben Bradlee ~
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
~By Kelly Osbourne ~
You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!
~By Mila Kunis ~
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
~By Clay Aiken ~
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
~By Henri Matisse ~
The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
~By Kurt Russell ~
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
~By Rip Torn ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.
~By David Talbot ~
There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
~By Rafik Hariri ~
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
~By Will Rogers ~
I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.
~By Nancy Johnson ~
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
~By Lord Robertson ~
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
~By Yogi Berra ~
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
~By Albert Einstein ~
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.
~By Frederick M. Vinson ~
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
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.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
~By Bill Moyers ~
My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
~By Jackie Jackson ~
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
~By Robert Mueller ~
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
~By Victor Borge ~
I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
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.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
~By Robert Collier ~
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
~By Will Rogers ~
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
~By George Edmund Street ~
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