Distinction Quotes · Page 8

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and…

— Karl Barth

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower…

— Tadashi Shoji

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”

— Onyi Anyado

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

— Paul Watson

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

— Allen Ginsberg

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the…

— Elisabeth Elliot

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the…

— William J. Brennan

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that…

— Tomas Transtromer

To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly…

— Jerome Cady

Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades…

— Michael Hersch

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a…

— William A. Henry III

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And…

— Amartya Sen

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution…

— John Adams

Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of…

— Milan Kundera

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make…

— Seneca the Younger

Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice…

— Eliot Porter

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going…

— Dan Bejar

I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is…

— Joseph Chamberlain

Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their…

— David Rockefeller

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and…

— Sallust

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

— Curt Sachs

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

— Henry Giroux

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

— Leonard Jacobson

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

— Daniel Okrent

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

— Robert Peel

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

— Thomas Fuller

“There is a useful distinction between good leaders and leaders of good”

— John Adair

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

— Louisa May Alcott

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There…

— Bradley Whitford

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

— Marshall McLuhan

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

— Romola Garai

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

— Quentin Crisp

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

— Robert Fulghum