Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and… — Jerry Kleczka Copy Share Image
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined… — Frank E. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of… — Pat O'Shane Copy Share Image
A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly… — Jerome Cady Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
