Distinction Quotes · Page 11

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

— Jane Fonda

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

— Rachel Cohn

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is…

— John Dewey

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— David Gemmell

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

— Stendhal

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and…

— Harold Ramis

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing…

— Gregg Braden

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria…

— Max Fisher

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that…

— Jon Meacham

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is…

— John Grierson

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in…

— Edith Wharton

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted,…

— John Mortimer

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger…

— Mark Twain

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by…

— Thomas Jefferson

Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the…

— Edward Gibbon

We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in…

— William Ernest Hocking

I want you to consider this distinction as you go forward in life. Being male is not enough; being a man is…

— Kent Nerburn

There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were…

— Felix Adler

Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the]…

— Walter Cronkite

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away…

— Anonymous

The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to…

— Alexander Hamilton

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

— Kate Flannery

“Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.”

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

— Marcel Duchamp

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

— Anonymous

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.

— Michael Fox

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.”

— Onyi Anyado

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

— Wentworth Miller

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

“When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.”

— Ramakrishna

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a…

— Mark Galli

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

— John Gay