Distinctly Quotes
117 Distinctly quotes by 98 unique authors
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Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the…
— Herman Melville
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Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing…
— Erich Segal
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
— Emily Dickinson
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
— Blaise Pascal
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Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for…
— Roger Lowenstein
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Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.
— Michael Pollan
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I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you…
— Terry Pratchett
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I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all…
— Helene Hanff
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Have you ever made her angry?" If the cop said that he and his wife lived in a state of constant connubial bliss, Andrew decided…
— Nalini Singh
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I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor nurse.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives,…
— Martin Luther
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through…
— Charles Dickens
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This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would…
— Rene Descartes
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The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
— Mark Twain
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In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
— Diane Paulus
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Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services…
— Lisa Gansky
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I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated…
— Eskinder Nega
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My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since…
— Kevin Connolly
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I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly…
— Laurie Graham
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
— Mark Twain
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