Distinction Quotes - Page 3

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

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

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

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

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

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

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

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

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

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.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

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

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

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.