Distinction Quotes · Page 9

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

— Curt Sachs

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the…

— Elisabeth Elliot

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There…

— Bradley Whitford

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

— Louisa May Alcott

“There is a useful distinction between good leaders and leaders of good”

— John Adair

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

— Bruce Sterling

The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in…

— Francis Schaeffer

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs…

— Dana Schutz

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in…

— Alice Hoffman

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different…

— George Orwell

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York…

— Malcolm X

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe…

— John Dewey

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,…

— Samuel Johnson

The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid…

— Burt Prelutsky

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as…

— Moliere

Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've…

— Kate Bornstein

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived…

— Samuel Johnson

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him…

— Karl Jaspers

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,…

— Charles Darwin

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

— Ambrose Bierce

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

— Thomas Fuller

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

— Robert Peel

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

— Daniel Okrent

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

— Elliot S. Maggin

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

— David Gemmell

My father - the late Madhavrao Scindia - was clear about the distinction between being 'loving' and 'strict.'

— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them

— Henry David Thoreau

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

— Leslie Fiedler

I didn't experience the negative side of [Adolf] Hitler. My sister [Eva Braun] did, that's a big distinction.

— Gretl Braun

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

— Paul Watson

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”

— Onyi Anyado

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

— Anatole France