An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams Copy Share Image
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and… — Jerry Kleczka Copy Share Image
I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things,… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
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