Distinction Quotes · Page 10

“When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.”

— Onyi Anyado

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”

— Onyi Anyado

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

— Allen Ginsberg

I didn't experience the negative side of [Adolf] Hitler. My sister [Eva Braun] did, that's a big distinction.

— Gretl Braun

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

— Paul Watson

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

— Leslie Fiedler

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them

— Henry David Thoreau

Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know…

— Miles Franklin

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency…

— James Buchan

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded…

— Anonymous

The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become…

— Danny Boyle

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea…

— Walter Lang

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction…

— Pope Leo XIII

Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is…

— Swami Vivekananda

... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who…

— Ambrose

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…

— Humphry Davy

The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those…

— Anthony Hopkins

I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to…

— Rebecca Goldstein

My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the…

— David C. Driskell

Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an…

— Rajneesh

If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is…

— Simon Critchley

For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For…

— John Calvin

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

My father - the late Madhavrao Scindia - was clear about the distinction between being 'loving' and 'strict.'

— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

— David Gemmell

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the…

— John Thorn

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

— Isaac Newton

“Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

— Lawrence Wright

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

— Bruce Barton

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

— Samuel Johnson

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

— H. P. Lovecraft

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

— John Polkinghorne

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

— Brett Kavanaugh