Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects.… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand,… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image