Distinctly Quotes
117 quotes by 98 authors
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Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books…
— J C Ryle
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Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
— E E Cummings
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I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I…
— George Seaton
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I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity,…
— Blaise Pascal
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Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has…
— Romare Bearden
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The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
— Will Self
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The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he…
— Confucius
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So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality...…
— E E Cummings
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Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain.…
— Michael Sandel
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It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood…
— John Grant
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A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can…
— Monty Roberts
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Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.
— Oswald Chambers
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is…
— Carlisle Floyd
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Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender…
— Diane Wakoski
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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described…
— Fred Hoyle
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The number of fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It…
— Galileo Galilei
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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . .…
— Confucius
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