Distinction Quotes · Page 11

“When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

— Minna Antrim

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

— Robert Fulghum

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

— Don Watson

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

— Quentin Crisp

Everything I do is true to the person I am. To me, there's not too much distinction between Elias and my former…

— Elias

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

— Marshall McLuhan

“I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage…

— Katha Pollitt

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's…

— Gottfried Leibniz

And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and…

— J. D. Hayworth

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed…

— Paul Di Filippo

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That…

— Pete du Pont

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of…

— Margaret Thatcher

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by…

— Moby

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,

— Nick Denton

As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,…

— Marcel Proust

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate…

— Bakari Kitwana

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about…

— Jodi Picoult

Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing,…

— J. L. Austin

I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction…

— David Oyelowo

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem…

— John Dewey

The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the…

— Hans Morgenthau

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

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Henri Matisse

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

— Josh Billings

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

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

— Anonymous

We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.

— Zach Wamp

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

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

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make…

— Bobby Darin

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

— Confucius

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

— Leonard Read