Distinction Quotations

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

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

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

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

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

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

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

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

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

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

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

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

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

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

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

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.

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.

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

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

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.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

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

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having...

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

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

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

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

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

Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

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

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

The highest distinction is service to others.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

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

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

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

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

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

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.

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

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