Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
~By Andre Maurois ~
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
~By Steve Forbert ~
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
~By Eric Cantor ~
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 ~
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
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 ~
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 choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
~By Bill Richardson ~
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
~By Philip Larkin ~
I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
~By Bob Seger ~
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 ~
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
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 ~
I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
~By James Galway ~
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
~By Ralph Nader ~
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
~By John Hume ~
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
~By Len Wein ~
There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
~By Gaylord Perry ~
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
~By Eleanor Bron ~
In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
~By Jenny Craig ~
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
~By Paul Celan ~
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
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 ~
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 ~
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
~By Maurice Strong ~
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
~By Sarah Palin ~
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 ~
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
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 ~
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 ~
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
~By Al Goldstein ~
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 ~
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 ~
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
~By Tommy Lasorda ~
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 ~
I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
~By John Erskine ~
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
~By Linda Ellerbee ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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 ~
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
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 ~
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.
~By Anastacia ~
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
~By Jack Bowman ~
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
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 ~
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
~By Edward Albee ~
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
~By Terrence Howard ~
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
~By Sonia Johnson ~
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
~By Max Frisch ~
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
~By Maya Angelou ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
~By Potter Stewart ~
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
~By Emil Ludwig ~
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
~By David Gest ~
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
~By William James ~
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 can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.
~By Glenn Ford ~
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
~By Ferdinand De Saussure ~
There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.
~By Maria Sharapova ~
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
~By Ralph Chaplin ~
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
~By Bob Riley ~
For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.
~By Jane Kaczmarek ~
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
~By Russell Hoban ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.
~By Dennis Kucinich ~
It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.
~By Jo Brand ~
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.
~By Lynne Cheney ~
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