Distinction Quotes

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.