I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first… — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
