Distinction Quotes
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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.
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.
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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.
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The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.
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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.
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I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
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Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities for corruption.
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I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
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To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
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The bear would have to be stopped. Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn’t blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.
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There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
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Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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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.
