Distinction Quotes

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinction…You retire when the game has had enough of you. You quit when you have had enough of the game.

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need to make between the notion of struggle and the notion of effort.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy.

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.