Distinguished Quotes

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.