Distinct Quotes

409 Distinct quotes by 352 unique authors

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as… — Douglas Adams
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or… — Henry David Thoreau
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. — Jim Fergus
And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved… — Anne Rice
Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world. — Sarah Dessen
No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a… — Marcel Proust
Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you… — Banana Yoshimoto
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was — Jack Kerouac
Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Then a person has only one tale?â€ No, some have two or three separate ones or more,â€ Fleet said. â€œSome people have many tales. Sometimes… — Chris Wooding
My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected… — C.S. Lewis
An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant. — Jim Butcher
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. â€œHmmm,â€ I said, trying not to spit crumbs. â€œClear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of… — James Patterson
The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step… — Susan B. Anthony
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing… — Gail Carriger
I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up… — Mary E. Pearson
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that… — David Bentley Hart
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. — Max Ernst

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