Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Keeping your head up when you feel unable of doing so is the trick that makes the difference between winners and losers. Finding the energy and the courage to keep your head up is a sign that you have what it takes to fight off anything that life throws your way.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving

An Englishman, me thinks,–not to speak of other European nations,–habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of the English nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an American–one who has made tolerable use of his opportunities–cares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.

Strong men create opportunities while the weak ones wait for them.

Starting over can be challenging, but also it can be a great opportunity to do things differently.

It hurts, because we wanted a different outcome, but then we make it hurt even worse by creating a narrative around what happened.

So, instead of creating that debilitating narrative, I think we’re better served realizing that now, we have an opportunity to pivot – to take our life in a different direction.

Life’s like a snakes and ladders game. You can rise straight up to the top and fall right to the bottom the next second. But

There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough.

You’ve got a new story to write. And it looks nothing like your past.

Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art

Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.
Or sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Jesus
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.

He was one of those who looked like a genius. I looked like a dishwasher so these types always pissed me just a bit.

The other members of the zodiac seemed to have so much pain… But I’m DIFFERENT. Papa and mama are DIFFERENT. We always have fun. We’re

Mom taught me that people’s differences are something to celebrate. When I thought of all the different shapes of human kindness — imagining them as

Old Sophie : A battleship?
Howl : On its way to burn cities and people.
Old Sophie : The enemy’s? Ours?
Howl : What difference does it make?

Nothing is really final in life; Not success, not failure. There’s always chances to start again with a different challenge, a different route.

Our teachers made such a difference – all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.

Marilyn Holmberg: What do you want?
Phil Potter: I want us to live together. I want us to get married. I want us to have children together. I want us to put our teeth in the same cup. I want us buried together in a family plot with one headstone. What do you want?
Marilyn Holmberg: I want a separate cup for my teeth.

We’re all born with selfish desires so we can relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is created individually by each person… So it’s easy to misunderstand when someone is trying to be kind to you… But Tohru, people’s differences are something to celebrate.

I am the barber with the difference you wanted!

A lot has changed.

Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

You drink root beer while you watch an NBA game? You are an American wannabe, aren’t you?” “That is perhaps the most horrid thing you could say to an Englishman.” “Worse than French wannabe?” “Well, there is that.”

The difference between dreams and reality is discipline. A superior performer can give themselves a command and then follow it.

I should have known. There was no way I could have joined the others. A rice ball doesn’t belong in a fruits basket.

I’m different. I have a “special existence.” I have been given an “eternal promise.” And everyone is waiting for me. So, I’m wanted. Because… that’s what father said.

Changing just a small part of the old paradigm can make an enormous difference in the results you enjoy in every area of your life.

Prick us, we bleed. Prick him, he pops.

It’s like my mom always says: ‘Ya think you’s a-walkin’ on water, but turns out you just got piss in your shoes.’

Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again – in pantomime.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

Gabrielle: Uncle John, I’ve heard the stories. I know you’ve been through a lot. But my world is a lot different from yours.
Rambo: No, it’s not. It’s worse.
Gabrielle: No, it’s not. People don’t just act bad for no reason.
Rambo: There’s no reason for a man to throw his family away. He’s lucky he has one.
Gabrielle: Why are you getting so mad?
Rambo: Because you don’t know how bad it is. I know how black a man’s heart can be. There’s nothing good out there, Gabrielle.
Gabrielle: Well, maybe he’s changed.
Rambo: Men like that don’t change. It only gets worse.
Gabrielle: You changed.
Rambo: I haven’t changed. I’m just trying to keep a lid on it, every day.

Except that it was no more home, just the place where he had grown up, and that first day back, touring the once familiar places only made him realize that he had already lived close to half his life.

The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs.

“You’re all there,” she said.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, I never met a man like you.”
“Oh, yeah?”
“The others are only ten percent there or twenty percent, you’re all there, all of you is very there, it’s so different.”
“I don’t know anything about it.”
“You’re a hooker, you can hook women.”

What was the difference between a movie critic and the average movie-goer? Answer: the critic didn’t have to pay.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

Where the strong man stumbles, the weak man falls.

It is the weak man who urges compromise – never the strong man.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

I used to give a fuck, until I lost my emotions.

I was taught to act my shoe size, never my age. I always judge a book by the cover, never the page. I never judge a murder by weapons, only the rage.

I go on tour and it hurts, I miss the days when this was fun but now it turned into work.

We all have negative days, but that doesn’t mean we are pessimistic. We all do stupid things, but that doesn’t mean we are stupid. It’s important to be able to distinguish between what happens to us and who we are, and look forward with hope for new and better days ahead!

Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

Truck driving is a lifestyle, not a job.

Truckers are not commuters. They are there to work.

The trucker on the highway is safe not when he reads the signs, but when he obeys them.

Life is not a race. You don’t start in the same position and everyone isn’t going in the same direction. You have your own space, your own pace, and your own place you want to get to.

The courage of living is –
to take risks,
to fail,
to get up, and to try again.
Try again differently.

I’ll bet you a million dollars you are a lot sharper than many people who have already earned a million. What’s the difference between you and them? They decided to do it.

I have happy moments. But I’m not about to say I’m a happy camper.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

The difference between knowing and doing can be summed up in one word… RESULTS!

As changes take place in my life, I continue to watch them truly work out for my good-if I can just wait on God to see me through. What makes all the difference is trust-the understanding that God has a much bigger plan than mine even if I don’t understand it. I’m grateful, yet sorry, that I have had to learn so many lessons by hindsight.

When I look at Hinata, I feel like an idiot. It’s like – here’s a life right in front of me, and she doesn’t know the difference yet between right and wrong. A totally innocent life before my very eyes. And yet here I am, so preoccupied with vanity and fear. So looking at her makes me feel small and stupid. I want to become stronger than that. I want to become a protector.

Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.

I am a truck driver dad. Like a normal dad but way cooler.

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder they have ever made a difference in the world, but the trucker doesn’t have that problem.

I believe that history should be taught in a different way. History definitely should be taught the way it happened — good, bad or ugly. History is sacred. For me history is a foundation and the truth.

If we’re gonna get past our our racial differences, it’s gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

I just want everyone to be awesome. That’s all it is. I want everyone to be cool in their way.

Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.

I’ve seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there’s no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I’ve also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.

It’s time to get past our racial differences. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.

Don’t hate me ’cause you ain’t me!

If I told you I was different, would you understand the difference?

A conscience grows, just like the body. It’s bred within your heart. That’s why the shape of people’s kindness is so different.

You can’t drive your car where there ain’t no roads, but you can drive your truck just about anywhere!

You know what the difference between a man and an 18-wheeler is?
The driver of an 18-wheeler knows he has his job ahead of him!

I’m not a trucker, I just drive one.

I am a truck driver. I am no different from you. The only difference you and I have is you go home to your family everynight while I am delivering the goods your family and mine need and want! So stop treating us truck drivers like criminals! Our job is tough enough without your added, unnecessary rudeness!

While others drive, we drive big trucks.

You can’t just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I’m sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don’t even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can’t remember, because I never knew.

I have never suffered from “insomnia” — I have not sleepless nights but wakeful hours.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Mousa: You do not look like men Griggs sent before. You not look like you are with military.
Rambo: I’m not.
Mousa: What you are? Mercenary?
Rambo: No.
Mousa: You’re not with military, not mercenary – what you are? Lost tourist?
Rambo: I’m no tourist.

Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.

It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.

Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.

I didn’t know whether to trust Alaska, and I’d certainly had enough of her unpredictability — cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I’m not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I’m so stoked my life panned out how it was.

Deputy Lester: I was just talking to Mitch, and he said that Gault and a couple of the deputies were… a little hard on the guy.
State Police Capt. Dave Kern: Assholes!
Teasle: It doesn’t make one goddamn bit of difference, Dave, and you know it! If one of my deputies… gets out of line with a prisoner then the prisoner comes to me with it. And if I find out it’s like he says I kick the deputy’s ass! *Me*! The *Law*! People start fucking around with the law then all hell breaks loose! Whatever possessed God in heaven to make a man like Rambo?
Trautman: God didn’t make Rambo, I made him!

Some people can’t sleep because they have insomnia. I can’t sleep because I have the internet connection.

The pattern of insomnia in children reflects difficulty in getting to sleep, whereas with adults it’s a problem staying asleep.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

A good cop can’t sleep at night because he’s missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can’t sleep because his conscience won’t let him.

It’s best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it’s what lets you pull on the line and reach what you’re aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

There is a big difference between having a barber and having somebody that cuts your hair.

Tearing up between what you deserve and what you settle for is a perpetual cause of unsettling pain.

Never settle for the lesser ambition. The job, the title, the conventional loyalties and rewards. Stay focused on the larger ambition, which is making a difference in the world.

Barbershops – Because salons are for girls.

Good barbershops are like great salons. The difference is the chair massage.

No matter what haircut you go for, a great barber makes all the difference.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he’d say to himself “Come the social revolution and we’ll take that away from you, mate”. Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he’d say “One day I’m going to own one of those”. To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.

‘Notting Hill?’ Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In ‘Mickey Blue Eyes,’ that’s kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don’t really have much.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language – you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

The Englishman’s strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American’s disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.

It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.

Not being capable of mending differences or finding closure with a loved one will stay and eat at you forever.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

By the way, whenever an Englishman would cry ‘All right!’ an American cries ‘Go ahead!’ which is somewhat expressive of the national character of the two countries.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

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.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don’t care to, the Chinese wouldn’t dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

God separated the Jeep from the car and named it “Rock Crawler”.