Distinction Quotes
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It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.
Karl Blind
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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.
Nancy MacLean
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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.
Tertullian
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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?
Elisabeth Elliot
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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.
Hannah Arendt
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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.
George Spencer-Brown
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I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
Cass Sunstein
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Brandon Mull
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To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
Minna Antrim
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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.
Plato
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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.
Celeste Ng
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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.
Wentworth Miller
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
Herbert Spencer
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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.
Elliot S. Maggin
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Norton Juster
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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.
Stella Benson