Quotes of: Distinction Keyword

While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.

Max Heindel

In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.

John Oates

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Nelson Mandela

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Alison Gopnik

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions

Life

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Anne Enright

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Jane Austen

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Lester B. Pearson

the target of the masses is that which stands out of the masses

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists.

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.

Tom Shales

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

Alfred Stieglitz

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Theodore Roosevelt

When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

Kevin A. Ford

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

I always think my face is quite nondescript - it sort of fits in to any period. It's not really distinct enough for you to remember me from something.

Kimberley Nixon

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Lowell Thomas