Quotes of: Distinction Keyword

when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

words make some unique ; words destroy some

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.

An Emerging Spirituality

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

A Familiar Rain

The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not. But of course interns are paid, in experience.

Beasts

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

W. H. Auden

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

William Blake

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

F. Sionil Jose

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

James Baldwin

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Antony Gormley

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

The Invention of the Jewish People

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

The Sunday Philosophy Club

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.

The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit

I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit

a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly

The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone

The highest distinction is service to others.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Charles Lamb

There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader--it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people.

Pascal Mercier