Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this… — C.S. Lewis
He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so… — Tim O'Brien
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be… — Aldous Huxley
Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve… — Julian Barnes
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. — Vincent Van Gogh
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.… — Haruki Murakami
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and… — Mortimer Adler
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And… — Joyce Carol Oates
Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment,… — Jodi Picoult
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,… — Hermann Hesse
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's… — Mary Baker Eddy
At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction -… — Agatha Christie
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.… — Joseph Heller
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is… — Werner Herzog
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his… — James A. Michener
She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love — Rachel Cohn
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. — C.S. Lewis
there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your… — Jodi Picoult
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done… — Helen Hayes
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is… — Hannah Arendt

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