Distinction Quotes · Page 8

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

— Mary Abigail Dodge

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

— Jim Allchin

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

— C. K. Prahalad

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

— Larry Wall

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

— Olympe de Gouges

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

— Herbert Hoover

And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and…

— J. D. Hayworth

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed…

— Paul Di Filippo

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of…

— Samuel Alexander

We should be able to see Islam for what it is, make a distinction between the people and the ideology, and stop…

— Geert Wilders

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;…

— Sigmund Freud

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when…

— Lucretia Mott

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinction…You retire when the game has had enough of you. You…

— Mercury Morris

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

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

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,…

— Jonathan Swift

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

Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand,…

— Ellen Langer

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World…

— Albert Einstein

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

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are…

— Felix Mendelssohn

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction…

— Eric Hoffer

It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question…

— Roger Penrose

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all…

— Anonymous

The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.

— Monica Johnson

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

— Anonymous

“Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.”

— Onyi Anyado

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

— Eleanor Catton

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

— Thomas M. Disch

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

— Cass Sunstein

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

— Laura Bohannan

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

— William Habington