Distinction Quotes - Page 5

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

There are views. And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is in the view, all that is in the view. We have to separate, to some extent, the perceiver from that which is perceived or we have to lose all distinction whatsoever.

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisión militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repetición - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.