Distinction Quotes

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.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

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

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.

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.

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

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

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

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

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.