Distinguished Quote by William Godwin

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like…

— Frank Smith

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…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness…

— Lisa Kleypas

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

— Roger Ebert

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same.…

— Etty Hillesum

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,…

— J. G. Holland

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how…

— Corra May Harris

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by…

— George Washington

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em…

— Kin Hubbard

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,…

— Joanna Scott

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the…

— Margaret Geller

Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well…

— Joaquin Castro

While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also…

— Witold Rybczynski