The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
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 ~
I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
~By Lou Gehrig ~
It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
~By James E. Rogers ~
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 ~
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
~By Paul Elmer More ~
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
~By Anne Tyler ~
The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.
~By Meir Kahane ~
We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
~By Oscar Levant ~
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
~By Nick Cave ~
You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.
~By Steve Forbert ~
The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
~By Pervez Musharraf ~
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
~By Johnny Unitas ~
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 ~
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
~By Jimmy Rushing ~
We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
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 ~
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
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 ~
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
~By Richard Whately ~
The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
~By Robert Welch ~
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
~By Huston Smith ~
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 ~
I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
~By Liz Carpenter ~
There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
~By Rip Torn ~
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
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 ~
In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
~By Kenneth Joseph Arrow ~
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
~By George Eliot ~
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
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 think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.
~By Marilyn Horne ~
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
~By Lactantius ~
The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.
~By John Lynch ~
They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
~By Peter Singer ~
Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
~By Kate Fox ~
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
~By Vilhjalmur Stefansson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
~By Pete Seeger ~
I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
~By Mo Udall ~
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
~By William James ~
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
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 ~
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
~By Galen Rowell ~
There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
~By Maurice Baring ~
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 ~
On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
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 ~
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
~By Philipp Melanchthon ~
I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
~By Gaylord Perry ~
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
~By Ralph Chaplin ~
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
~By George Eliot ~
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
~By William Law ~
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
~By Samuel Dash ~
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
~By Robert Heller ~
There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.
~By Tommy Rettig ~
When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
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 secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
~By Al Capp ~
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
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 ~
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works.
~By Herman Gorter ~
Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
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 ~
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
~By Brian Eno ~
I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.
~By John Hume ~
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
~By George W. Bush ~
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
~By Carre Otis ~
We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people.
~By Donald Norman ~
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