Distinguish Quotes

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.