The leading distinction of magnets is sex... The kind that is found in Troas is black, and of the female sex, and… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant,… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It's quite clear that Gore won most of the votes. I think the accurate description for them is a military plutocracy. Having… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
