Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant,… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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