Distinction Quotes · Page 11

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

— Rob Corddry

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without…

— Clement Attlee

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.

— Michael Fox

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria…

— Max Fisher

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests…

— Aldous Huxley

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this…

— Stella Benson

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or…

— Hans Kung

In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is…

— Laozi

It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and…

— Cormac McCarthy

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique…

— Igor Stravinsky

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every…

— Frederic Bastiat

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and…

— Justin Cronin

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous…

— James Madison

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly…

— Bernie Siegel

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim…

— George Orwell

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is…

— Wasif Ali Wasif

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

— Wentworth Miller

“The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.”

— Onyi Anyado

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

— Samuel Smiles

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

— Meister Eckhart

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to…

— Benjamin Bratt

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

— Thomas Paine

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

— Michael Hyatt

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

— Adrian Tomine

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

— Laura Prepon

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

— Herbert Spencer

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman…

— Mahatma Gandhi

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and…

— Anna Julia Cooper