Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and… — David Chalmers
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike… — Lucian Freud
When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It… — Joseph Bologna
Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity. — John Hales
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. — David Antin
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any… — Jack Cade
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when… — Ben Hecht
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The… — Dick Morris
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as… — Ambrose Bierce
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over… — Charles Kendall Adams
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was… — Unknown Author
One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the… — Niels Bohr
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read… — Ambrose Bierce
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the… — Robert Inchausti
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There… — George Bernard Shaw
Say: We believe In God, and in what Has been revealed to us And what was revealed To Abraham, Ishmael; Isaac, Jacob, and the tribes,… — Quran
There was neither death nor immortality then. There was not distinction of day or night. That alone breathed windless by its own power. Other than… — Rig Veda
A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend… — Tom Morris
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the… — Ambrose Bierce
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals play on compound… — Ilkin Santak
The key to resisting the hardship and discord that intrude upon every human life, is to cultivate a certain attitude toward adversity based on the… — Senoraroy
It is vital to make a distinction between feeling grateful and being grateful. We cannot easily will ourselves to feel grateful or less depressed, but… — Unknown Author
A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in… — Napoleon Bonaparte
How to tell you're dating a girl, not a woman; she relies on posts like what a realman should do to make a distinction. — KM II
The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.when love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.Make the smallest… — Unknown Author

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