Distinction Quotes

677 Distinction quotes by 540 unique authors

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life,… — Todd Gitlin
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato
There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make. — Unknown Author
In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective and objective -… — Robert Moss
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson
I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We will make no… — George W. Bush
I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know… — John F. Kennedy
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men;… — William Henry Harrison
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I… — James K. Polk
It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this distinction, you really… — Tommy Lasorda
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories,… — Norman Potter
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself… — Karl Jaspers
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine… — Robert Spencer
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely… — Abraham Cahan
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Mary Wortley Montagu
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There… — Lucian Freud
God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it. — Paul Crouch
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. — David Antin
Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within. — Andrew Weil
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. — C.S. Lewis
Hatred obscures all distinctions. — C.S. Lewis
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself,… — Shulamith Firestone
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. — W. Somerset Maugham

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