Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to…

In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that…

— Pope John Paul II

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the…

— Howard Staunton

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I wanted to tell them that they had made a mistake. I wasn’t like them. I didn’t want the same things that they wanted,…

— Ling Ma

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting…

— Therese Fowler

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes…

— Virgilia Peterson

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

— Jonah Goldberg

“Product distinctions, the historic centerpiece of product marketing, exist only briefly—and in the prospects’ minds, often not at all.”

— Harry Beckwith

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

— Fanny Kemble

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

— Anonymous

“If we want to decode our community's deep-seated fibers, we must go and see the world and explore the significant distinctions and resemblances. To…

— Erik Pevernagie

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti