Distinctive Quotes

148 quotes by 142 authors

The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it… — David McCullough
How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake… — Douglas Wilson
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. — Hattie McDaniel
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the… — Colin McGinn
Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or… — Obafemi Awolowo
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It… — James Stuart Stewart
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history -… — Richard M. Nixon
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering. — Pope John Paul II
Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done lately - this… — Tom Peters
Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane… — Bob Herbold
.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing — Liona Boyd
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse.… — Denis Donoghue
When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may… — Rod Serling
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the… — August Kleinzahler
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and… — Isocrates
Sometimes it feels like energy or electricity when it is moving in and through us, but spiritual power is really a distinctive kind of knowledge… — Frank Fools Crow
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. — Peter Garrett

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