Distinction Quotes

• There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Things
  • Wanting
  • Liking

• I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.

  

  Anna Wickham
  • Women
  • High
  • Hope

• We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

  

  Ivan Illich
  • Hope
  • Expectation
  • Distinction

• Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

  

  William Blackstone
  • People
  • Hell
  • Crime

• It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Loved
  • Distinction

• Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

  

  Sallust
  • Gods
  • Intellect
  • Myths

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

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Purpose
  • Firsts
  • Darling

• The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Escape
  • Distinction
  • Legion of Honor

• I believe that it is an honor beyond measure that Bar Ilan University and the Rennert Center would deem it proper to cast me among the ranks of our greatest defenders and champions. I know I do not deserve this distinction. I certainly do not believe that I have earned it. But I do know that since childhood I have strived to emulate the image of the watchman-or watchwoman-on the walls of Zion. And I pledge that I will continue throughout my life to strive to earn the distinction you bestow on me tonight.

  

  Caroline Glick
  • Life
  • Strive
  • Bestow

• In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

  

  Confucius
  • Teaching
  • Distinction
  • Classes

• If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • God
  • Belief
  • Atheist

• An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.

  

  William J. Mitchell
  • Dream
  • Shadow
  • Innocence

• I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.

  

  Michael Azerrad
  • People
  • Home
  • Journalism

• I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Events

• Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Islam
  • Distinction
  • Muslims

• In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Remains
  • Separation
  • Distinction

• The skin cells on your nose might well be “potential human beings,” in the loose sense in which a rubber ball is a “potential eraser.” But a zygote is not a “potential human being” or a “potentially rational animal.” Rather, it is an actual human being and thus an actual rational animal, just one that hasn’t yet fully realized its inherent potentials. Harris and his ilk might want to ignore the importance of this distinction, but that it is a genuine distinction cannot rationally be denied.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Animal
  • Human Beings
  • Rational

• This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Real
  • Art
  • Reality

• No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

  

  William Habington
  • Glory
  • Birth
  • Clouds

• Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Fiction
  • Aim
  • Memoir

• It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

  

  Abigail McCarthy
  • Religion
  • Distinction
  • Religiosity

• Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction.

  

  Bertie Ahern
  • Experience
  • Politician
  • Prime Minister

• To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Honor
  • Source
  • Earthly

• It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • Style
  • Room
  • Distinction

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