Distinction Quotes · Page 7

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

— Thomas Paine

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

— Michael Hyatt

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

— Adrian Tomine

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

— Laura Prepon

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

— John Polkinghorne

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

— Jane Fonda

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

— Brett Kavanaugh

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together…

— Ira Sachs

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between…

— Frederick Douglass

The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its…

— Thucydides

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which…

— Edith Hamilton

To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to…

— Ron Fournier

In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are…

— Haruki Murakami

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

— Christian Dior

The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our…

— Napoleon Hill

There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think…

— George Saunders

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw…

— Jack Kemp

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having…

— Albert Schweitzer

You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept…

— Zicheng Hong

The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize…

— Robert Grudin

Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or…

— Robert A. Heinlein

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which…

— Georg Brandes

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

Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction…

— Deborah Lupton

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

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

I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in…

— Sulak Sivaraksa

One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From…

— Stephen Hawking

If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return…

— Richard Moss

And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated…

— Emily Bronte

“What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

— Bruce Barton

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

— Lawrence Wright

“Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

— H. P. Lovecraft

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

— Samuel Johnson