Distinguished Quotes · Page 8

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but…

— Kingsley Amis

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But…

— Gaston Leroux

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the…

— C. S. Lewis

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power…

— Joel Garreau

Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make…

— John Lee Mahin

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart…

— Joseph Addison

Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the…

— St. Jerome

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from…

— Ambrose Bierce

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from…

— Edward Young

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo…

— Tacitus

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... the gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

— Bradford Dillman

I tell young girls all the time: "Go for the guys who are more serious, distinguished". The hot-model types, they're too pretty,…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.…

— Samuel Johnson

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the…

— Edward Gibbon

Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily…

— Albert Wohlstetter

If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died…

— Charles Simeon

How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

— Alfred Austin

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

— Woodrow Wilson

For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free…

— Alan Watts