Distinction Quotes · Page 13

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

— Kate Flannery

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and…

— Harold Ramis

“Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.”

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

— Marcel Duchamp

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction…

— Frederick Lenz

Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy…

— Champfleury

A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister,…

— Rick Mercer

Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

— George Bernard Shaw

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect…

— Frederick Douglass

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

— Nelson A. Miles

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as…

— Sir John Davies

Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;…

— Samuel Smiles

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I'm not going to critique the president's every utterance, but I do think America is exceptional. America is different. We don't operate…

— Mitch McConnell

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians…

— Jimmy Carter

If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are…

— Anonymous

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every…

— Anonymous

I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them…

— Philip Glass

Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s…

— Anonymous

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

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 right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

— Elliot S. Maggin

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

— Daniel Okrent

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

— Henry Giroux

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

— Shakti Gawain

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

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

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

— Curt Sachs

“When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.”

— Onyi Anyado

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

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

— Allen Ginsberg

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