The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller…

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Discernment could be likened to distinguishing a light in the distance.”

— Lisa Bevere

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before…

— Yvonne Strahovski

Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board.

— Michael Perlis

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

— Nic Pizzolatto

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings -…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or…

— David Blunkett

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

— Donald Fagen

My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns…

— Jane Birkin

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

— Rollo May

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other…

— David Lean