Quotes by Differences Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. William James making-a-differenceinsightfuldifferences The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English. William Hazlitt vanitydifferencesthinking A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all. William James differences Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference. As someone who is older and has been through a few election cycles, maybe this is just being an old fogey, but I think I know what's going to really matter and what's not. William Kristol newsdifferencesthinking At the end of the day,[Mitt] Romney was pro-life, but [Rick] Santorum was more fervently pro-life, and had been for longer. They're all going to repeal Obamacare, but Romney has once endorsed something like it. In the old days, there really were differences on fundamental issues, even on foreign policy, [for which] [Newt] Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum were pretty similar. William Kristol obamacareissuesdifferences I will act as if I do make a difference. William James making-a-differencedifferencesaction You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference. William J. Clinton differencesrunningamerica An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter. William James differencesrootsmen If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. William Law differencesreligiouschristian Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. William Hazlitt sarcasmdifferencesmen True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as. William James truth-isdifferencesideas Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms? William James differencestruthideas The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely. William James extensionsdifferencesrelation Hillary's opponent, in his entire campaign, every two or three weeks has said for months and months and months, beginning in Nevada, that really there wasn't much difference in how America did when I was president and how America's done under President Bush. Now, if you believe that, you should probably vote for him, but you get a very bad grade in history. William J. Clinton differencestwobelieve There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere. William James making-a-differencedifferencesdoe There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings. William Matthews differencescharactermen We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it. William J. Clinton making-a-differencedifferencesjobs The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness! William James differenceshairart [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important. William James differencesimportantpersonality We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life. William James designdifferencesspecial«279280281282283284285286287288289»
