Distinction Quotes
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.
Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.
There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.
I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.
The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.
There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.
I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.
There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.
War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.
Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs.
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
