Distinction Quotes · Page 34

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

— Laozi

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by…

— Stephen Bayley

... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,

— Nick Denton

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them…

— Thomas Jefferson

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

— Edward Snowden

The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in…

— Celeste Ng

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

— Josh Billings

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

— Clement Attlee

There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The…

— Lucretia Mott

The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves…

— David Bennun

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been…

— Booker T. Washington

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the…

— Tom Cavanagh

One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way…

— Aldous Huxley

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

— Quentin Crisp

The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve…

— Jeff Cooper

We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang…

— Deng Xiaoping

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having…

— Albert Schweitzer

When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings…

— Anonymous

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between…

— Pankaj Mishra

I had an opportunity to express my views, yes. I agreed with the approach which we took, namely, to make a distinction…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“I don't consider elegance and extravagance to be the same element.”

— Karah Khalia

Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known…

— Stanley Fish

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and…

— C. S. Lewis

Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole…

— John Pilger