Distinction Quotes

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

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

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

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

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

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

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

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

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.

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

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

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

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.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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

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

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.