Distinction Quotes - Page 4

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

The highest distinction is service to others.

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.