Distinct Quotes

409 quotes by 352 authors

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be… — Thomas Nagel
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such… — Lydia M. Child
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. — Tim Bishop
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us. — Caspar David Friedrich
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct… — Harold Bloom
Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and… — Steve Pavlina
Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to… — Samael Aun Weor
Love as distinct from â€œbeing in loveâ€ is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by… — C.S. Lewis
Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian… — Swami Vivekananda
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never… — Henry David Thoreau
We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. Itâ€™s only when we… — Alberto Villoldo
There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance… — B. B. Warfield
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person… — Stephen Batchelor
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into… — John Drinkwater
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition… — Paul Valery
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people… — Alexander Hamilton
I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle… — Thomas Jefferson
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and… — Ed Bradley
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict… — Oliver Lodge
I like business and personal life to be distinct. — Carter Burwell

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