Distinction Quotes · Page 37

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take…

— Antisthenes

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the…

— Mary Baker Eddy

In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are…

— Haruki Murakami

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

— Walter Savage Landor

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the…

— James K. Polk

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in…

— John Ruskin

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

— John Hales

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

— Stendhal

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency…

— Edmund Burke

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and…

— Pope Francis

Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of…

— Emma Goldman

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

— Michael Porter

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece…

— Katharine Whitehorn

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

— Plutarch

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 distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

— Anonymous

I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue,…

— Frances McDormand

“You need to choose your association according to your vision.”

— Onyi Anyado

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

— Leonard Read

I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about…

— Margaret Atwood

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the…

— Errol Morris

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts,…

— Arne Tiselius

Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to…

— Bell Hooks