Distinction Quotes · Page 9

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good…

— Mark Haddon

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

— Corrie Ten Boom

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister…

— Bertie Ahern

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into…

— Henri Matisse

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair…

— Benjamin Franklin

It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

“This distinction is exactly the difference between being aware that you are aware in your daily life, and not being aware that…

— Michael A. Singer

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking…

— William Hazlitt

If the distinction provided by Jesus' words: Give unto god, what is god's, and unto Caesar what is Caesar's! is carried through,…

— Alfred Rosenberg

“Distinction doesn't consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those whose are true,…

— Thomas Hardy

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a…

— Richard Linklater

I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to…

— Fred Hampton

Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's…

— Christopher Hitchens

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and…

— Hannah Arendt

I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it…

— Nicholas Meyer

Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man,…

— Anonymous

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs…

— Clarence Thomas

Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all…

— Theodor Schwenk

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic…

— Shulamith Firestone

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

— Meister Eckhart

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to…

— Benjamin Bratt

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

— Laura Prepon

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

— Thomas Paine

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

— Michael Hyatt

The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.

— Saul Berman

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and…

— James Burgh

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

— Maggie Kuhn

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

— John Fowles

To be loved is to be fortunate, to be hated is to have acheived distinction.

— Anonymous