Quotes of: Distinctions Keyword

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Katherine Dunn

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

Marianne Williamson

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Ira Glass

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Herbert Hoover

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

Gary L. Francione

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

David Hume

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

John Major

The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.

Emile Durkheim

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Malcolm Fraser

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Constance Baker Motley

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.

Gary Inbinder

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Helen Clark

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

David Antin

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.

David Lee

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

John Lennon

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

John George Nicolay

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

Iris Chang

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Oliver Stone

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove