Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your… — Sydney Smith
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had… — Bruce Springsteen
You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction… — Charles Stanley
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on… — Tom Stoppard
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to… — Thomas Szasz
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like… — Leon Trotsky
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an… — Orson Welles
The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those… — Ellen G. White
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction. — Bradley Whitford
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object. — William Wilberforce
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have… — Thomas Paine
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is… — Annie Dillard
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at… — Mark Twain
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. — Wassily Kandinsky
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had… — John Irving
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of… — Arundhati Roy
It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in… — Cormac McCarthy
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining… — Thomas Paine
In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated,… — Steven Brust
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. — Jared Diamond
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be… — Albert Schweitzer
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions. — Unknown Author
There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary… — Tiffanie DeBartolo

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