Distinguished Quotes

296 Distinguished quotes by 230 unique authors

You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one… — Kiersten White
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have… — Daniel Kahneman
My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who… — James Patterson
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a… — Mark Twain
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience. — Horace Bushnell
A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All… — Etty Hillesum
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,… — Thomas Jefferson
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom… — John Stuart Mill
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and… — Isaac Asimov
How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination… — Grace Lee Boggs
Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. — Anna Seward
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An… — Plutarch
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy… — Emile Durkheim
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in… — David Suzuki
Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it. — Bradford Dillman
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one… — Emile Durkheim
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy. — John Lewis Gaddis
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality… — Gad Elmaleh

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