The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
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 ~
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
~By Crystal Eastman ~
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 ~
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.
~By Thomas Arnold ~
What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
~By James Levine ~
It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.
~By Sean Booth ~
It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
~By Mark Twain ~
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
~By Brendan Behan ~
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
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 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 ~
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
~By Reggie Jackson ~
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
~By Marc Morial ~
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
~By Studs Terkel ~
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
~By Duke of Wellington ~
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 ~
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
~By Albert Camus ~
If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.
~By Liv Ullman ~
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
~By Betty Rollin ~
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
~By Billie Jean King ~
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
~By Jane Elliot ~
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Politeness is organized indifference.
~By Paul Valery ~
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
~By Oscar Arias Sanchez ~
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track.
~By Scott Reed ~
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
~By Italo Calvino ~
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
~By Jessica Simpson ~
And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
A good video can make all the difference.
~By Brian May ~
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
~By Tina Turner ~
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
~By Greg Lake ~
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
~By Ty Cobb ~
I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.
~By David Beckham ~
After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
~By Robert Maxwell ~
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
~By Elvis Presley ~
It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
~By Norma McCorvey ~
We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.
~By Max Walker ~
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
~By S. I. Hayakawa ~
If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
~By Jim Henson ~
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
~By David Sarnoff ~
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.
~By Ruggiero Ricci ~
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
~By Golda Meir ~
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
~By James Taylor ~
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
~By Helen Keller ~
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
~By Inge de Bruijn ~
Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
~By Alex Van Halen ~
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
~By Cab Calloway ~
Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.
~By Jim Coleman ~
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~By Virginia Satir ~
They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
~By Sam Ewing ~
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
~By Ray Walston ~
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
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 ~
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
~By Charles Dickens ~
The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
~By Shania Twain ~
The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
~By Scott Adams ~
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
~By Barbara Deming ~
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
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 ~
My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.
~By Holly Marie Combs ~
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