Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. — Thomas Hardy
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of… — Audrey Hepburn
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. — Abbie Hoffman
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. — Herbert Hoover
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. — Ivan Illich
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to… — Arthur Keith
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. — John Lennon
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James… — George R. R. Martin
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. — Marshall McLuhan
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to… — Ian Mckellen
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive… — Jon Meacham
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional. — Wentworth Miller
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. — Isaac Newton
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. — Richard M. Nixon
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man… — Lester B. Pearson
We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no… — Nancy Pelosi
Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator. — Rick Perry
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where… — Pablo Picasso
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that… — Steven Pinker
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is… — Harold Pinter
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. — Michael Porter
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. — Ramakrishna
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a… — Salman Rushdie
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of… — Haile Selassie

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