Quotes and Sayings About Distinction

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.
-- Agatha Christie

#Sitting #Tables #Distinction

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

#Men #Devotion #Distinction

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Fool #Incapacity #Distinction

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.
-- Andrew Weil

#Healing #Mind #Distinction

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Moments #Excuse #Distinction

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
-- Barbara Jordan

#Law #Immigration #Distinction

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
-- Bell Hooks

#Men #Distinction #Threat

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

#Teenager #Sometimes #Distinction

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
-- Bill Brandt

#Photographer #Produce #Distinction

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
-- Bobby Darin

#Comedian #Comic #Distinction

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

#Moments #Distinction #Rejects

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.
-- Charles Darwin

#Belief #Latter #Distinction

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

#Distinction #Unsatisfied

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
-- E. M. Forster

#Literature #Notable #Distinction

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

#Coke #Lord #Distinction

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
-- Edward Tufte

#Simplicity #Subtle #Distinction

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

#Two #Morality #Distinction

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
-- Freeman Dyson

#Religion #Mind #Distinction

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Noses #Logic #Distinction

The highest of distinctions is service to others.
-- George IV of the United Kingdom

#Volunteer #Service To Others #Distinction

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.
-- Gregg Braden

#Real #Distinction #Imaginary

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
-- Harold Pinter

#Real #Literature #Distinction

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.
-- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#Differences #Distinction #Preservation

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Made #Distinction #Goods

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
-- Jim Allchin

#Running #Distinction #Operating Systems

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

#Evil #Doe #Distinction

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
-- Joan Miro

#Painting #Distinction

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
-- Joely Fisher

#College #Distinction #Alumni

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
-- John George Nicolay

#Law #West #Distinction

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

#Thinking #Distinction #Wells