You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.
~By Mitt Romney ~
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
~By Brendan Behan ~
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
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 ~
It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.
~By Clay Aiken ~
We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.
~By Peter Criss ~
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
~By John Pomfret ~
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.
~By Kelli White ~
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 ~
Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
~By Vic Mignogna ~
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
~By Robert Musil ~
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
~By William James ~
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
~By Brendan Behan ~
Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
~By Marvin Minsky ~
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.
~By Katherine Harris ~
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.
~By Henry Reed ~
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
~By Joan Chen ~
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
~By Brit Hume ~
You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
~By Chuck D. ~
Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
~By Stockwell Day ~
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
~By Ashley Montague ~
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.
~By Marilyn Horne ~
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
~By George P. Baker ~
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 ~
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
~By Herman Cain ~
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
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 ~
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
~By Bob Riley ~
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
~By Patrick Murray ~
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
~By Randy Travis ~
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
~By John Denver ~
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
~By Martina McBride ~
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
~By Robert Klein ~
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
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 ~
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
~By Jill Scott ~
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 ~
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
~By Norman Mailer ~
We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.
~By William Hall ~
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
~By Laura Bush ~
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
~By Truman Capote ~
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
~By Will Rogers ~
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
~By Rick Pitino ~
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
~By Donna Shalala ~
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 ~
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 more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
~By Minna Antrim ~
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 ~
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.
~By Tommy Rettig ~
You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.
~By Dan Miller ~
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
~By Ingmar Bergman ~
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
~By Gene Hackman ~
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 ~
I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.
~By Alex Campbell ~
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
~By James Wolfe ~
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
~By Chris Evert ~
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.
~By James Caan ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?
~By Ethel Merman ~
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
~By Layne Staley ~
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
~By John Donne ~
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
~By David Viscott ~
We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
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 ~
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
~By Ethel Waters ~
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
~By Anne Tyler ~
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