Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the… — Criss Jami
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. — Criss Jami
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as… — E. M. Forster
There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something.… — Morgan Freeman
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose… — David Greenberg
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living. — Robert Fulghum
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. — Thomas Fuller
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make… — William Gibson
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written… — Justin Cronin
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. — Bobby Darin
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. — John Dewey
Art is anything people do with distinction. — Louis Dudek
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. — Andrea Dworkin
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a… — Abba Eban
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. — Leslie Fiedler
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. — E. M. Forster
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very… — Mark Haddon
I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs.… — Fred Hampton

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