Distinguished Quotes

296 Distinguished quotes by 230 unique authors

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too… — Gaston Leroux
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It… — Calvin Coolidge
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. — Ambrose Bierce
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be… — Mary Balogh
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every… — George Washington
Sir,â€™ said Stephen, â€˜I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and… — Amos Oz
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… — Mark Twain
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so… — Rene Descartes
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. — Hannah Arendt
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for… — Lisa Kleypas
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's… — Albert Einstein
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man… — Edgar Allan Poe
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course,… — Jincy Willett
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I… — Charles Dickens
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he… — Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in… — Ruta Sepetys

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