Distinction Quotes · Page 5

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

— Anatole France

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic…

— Curtis Hanson

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

— George W. Bush

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

— E. M. Forster

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

— William Ernest Henley

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may…

— David Antin

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling…

— John Fowles

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of…

— Alan Watts

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you…

— Salman Rushdie

For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle…

— Nick Broomfield

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between…

— Peter Kropotkin

The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's…

— Lionel Shriver

I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one…

— Joseph Campbell

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a…

— William P. Young

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem…

— Aristotle

There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes…

— Sarah Fielding

We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

'Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your…

— Gregory Palamas

It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was…

— Simon Blackburn

To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a…

— J. M. Coetzee

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in…

— Thomas Hardy

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

— Albert Einstein

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

— William Hazlitt

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

— John Dewey

Everyone is hooked on class distinction, whichever side of the tracks they come from. They may not admit it, but it's true.

— Jean Marsh

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

— Judah Smith

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

— Nelson A. Miles

The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

— Hannah Arendt

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion…

— Ambrose Bierce

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

— Jane Austen

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

— John Major

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

— Ambrose Bierce

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

— J. K. Rowling

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

— Ambrose Bierce

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

— Gretchen Rubin