Distinction Quotes · Page 12

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

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

— Meister Eckhart

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

— Samuel Smiles

“Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

— Lawrence Wright

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

— Bruce Barton

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

— Samuel Johnson

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

— H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the…

— Matthea Harvey

Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have…

— Frederick Lenz

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state…

— Anonymous

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon…

— Thomas Jefferson

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore…

— John Stuart Mill

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in…

— Alan Keyes

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery…

— Carolyn Wheat

An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility…

— William J. Mitchell

In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It…

— Gregg Braden

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual…

— Mark Steyn

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

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the…

— John Thorn

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

— Isaac Newton

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

— John Polkinghorne

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

— Jane Fonda

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is…

— John Dewey

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

— Rachel Cohn

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

— David Gemmell

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

— Stendhal

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

— Anonymous