Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“When you walk in distinction, even the photocopying machine can’t replicate your unique quality.” — Onyi Anyado Copy Share Image
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“Elsewhere Buton says that the distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists is a conceptual construct by Tibetans that is not found in India.… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Don’t you get it? There is no other you. Out of the six and a half billion people on earth, not a… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“As I would learn later on, developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world -- those individuals whose talents are… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind... — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
To each is their own, flavors born with distinction what often tastes sweet dies off in extinction. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
