Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some… — Edward Gibbon
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me. — P. C. Cast
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A… — Carl Sagan
I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be… — Patricia Grasso
The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction,… — Ismail KadarÃ©
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction — Orhan Pamuk
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in… — Miyamoto Musashi
In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 — Brian Greene
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle… — George Orwell
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the… — Tom Stoppard
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even… — Anne Carson
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments... — Thomas Paine
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them. — Jim Butcher
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed… — Bram Stoker
Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it’s not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need… — Richelle Mead
I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery.… — Marguerite Duras
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are… — Stephen Fry
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard… — Joseph Brodsky
And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a… — Emily Bronte
Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a kindred… — Kiersten White
Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome. — Amanda Hocking
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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