Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man, on the unity of man, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
