One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently…

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like…

— Frank Smith

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness…

— Lisa Kleypas

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

— Roger Ebert

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same.…

— Etty Hillesum

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,…

— J. G. Holland

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how…

— Corra May Harris

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by…

— George Washington

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em…

— Kin Hubbard

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,…

— Joanna Scott

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the…

— Margaret Geller

Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well…

— Joaquin Castro

While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also…

— Witold Rybczynski