Distinctive Quotes

148 quotes by 142 authors

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own… — Francis of Assisi
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new… — Pope Benedict XVI
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban… — Ruben Blades
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browning
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my… — Sandra Cisneros
The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the… — Carl G. Fisher
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of… — Taisen Deshimaru
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention… — Northrop Frye
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and… — Ronald Reagan
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be… — Abraham Lincoln
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive. — Benjamin E. Mays
The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness… — Ravi Zacharias
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson
The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the… — Mary Fulbrook
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. — Shlomo Sand
I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive,… — Scarlett Johansson

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