Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are views. And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is in the view, all that is in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
“In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers,… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into… — Norman Potter Copy Share Image
In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge… — Catharine Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach “normal” has brought me to ponder whether “normal” even exists, or if it… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The distinction between Trade and Warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.� -Heironymo Sondar, House Sondar ” — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
