Distinction Quotes · Page 7

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

— J. K. Rowling

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

— Ambrose Bierce

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

— Jane Austen

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion…

— Ambrose Bierce

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

— Andy Hargreaves

All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.

— Margaret Wertheim

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

— Judah Smith

Everyone is hooked on class distinction, whichever side of the tracks they come from. They may not admit it, but it's true.

— Jean Marsh

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right…

— William Hazlitt

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between…

— Peter Kropotkin

The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's…

— Lionel Shriver

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you…

— Salman Rushdie

For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle…

— Nick Broomfield

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling…

— John Fowles

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of…

— Alan Watts

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one…

— Kristin Cashore

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was…

— David Duke

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor…

— Louis O. Kelso

I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the…

— Barack Obama

I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I…

— John C. Reilly

Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts…

— Stephen Jay Gould

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational…

— Howard Gardner

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their…

— Francis Bacon

“Don’t you get it? There is no other you. Out of the six and a half billion people on earth, not a…

— Dan Pearce

What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost…

— Eugene V. Debs

Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far…

— Frederick Soddy

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is…

— Judith Butler

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

— John Dewey

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

— William Hazlitt

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

— Hannah Arendt

The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

— William Ernest Henley

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

— Edward Snowden

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

— Jared Diamond