Distinction Quotes
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the teachings with the man Himself. The two cannot be separated.
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.