Distinct Quotes

409 Distinct quotes by 352 unique authors

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemistsâ€™ shops, and which often save… — Richard Whately
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. — Mavis Gallant
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon… — Hannah Arendt
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce… — Eustace Budgell
The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to… — Louis D. Brandeis
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division,… — Herbert Read
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between… — George Edmund Street
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and… — William Labov
How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic… — Iyanla Vanzant
In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the… — Aristotle
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both… — Alfred North Whitehead
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me. — Richard Ford
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. — Charles Hodge
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us. — Daniel Dennett
The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming… — Lester Bangs
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. — Constance Baker Motley
I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are… — Louis Begley
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different… — Judith Butler

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