Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You… — Michael Azerrad
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman. — Ben Casnocha
I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction. — Kate Flannery
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing… — Eric Alterman
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction… — Samuel Alexander
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. — Ann Brashares
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body,… — Carl Rogers
Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm… — Deborah Lupton
The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am… — Paramahansa Yogananda
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and… — Gary L. Francione
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above. — Jonah Goldberg
North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state,… — Kay Hagan
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And… — John F. Kennedy
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two… — Harold Bloom
When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears. — Confucius
You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to… — Fred Hampton
I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those… — Francois Hollande
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia… — Gordon Gould
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. — Maggie Nelson
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or… — Edwin Percy Whipple
If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former… — Richard Moss
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That… — William J. Clinton
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce
renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the… — Ambrose Bierce
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,… — Samuel Johnson

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