Quotes About Distinction

There'll always be a difference between a star and an actor. I've nothing against stars. They've earned it and deserve it. I'm happy being just an actor.

We don't make a distinction between an acoustic instrument as a source of sound and any sound in the air outside or on a manufactured tape. It's all electric energy, anyway.

One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

We're two different people, and we're two different fighters in the ring. You can look at my tattoos and say, 'Oh that's Jermall.' Our tattoos separate and identify my brother and I.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.

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

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

From Fustel de Coulanges to his student, Durkheim, is but a short step. Durkheim's distinction between the sacred and the profane, and his linking of the sacred to the social are but a broadening and systematization of what Fustel had confined to the classical city-state.

What this typographical distinction should make immediately apparent in the passage is the highly subsidiary role of narration in comparison to direct speech by the characters.

In America there are two classes of travel—first-class, and with children.

WHICH LINES DO YOU DRAW, AND WHEN DO YOU DRAW THEM? You draw lines between things that matter and things that don't. The GUI doesn't matter to the business rules, so there should be a line between them. The database doesn't matter to the GUI, so there should be a line between them. The database doesn't matter to the business rules, so there should be a line between them.

Thoreau once said, 'Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

I deliberately ignored these things because I knew they weren't interesting. You can do a lot by avoiding bad as opposed to seeking good.

A flower in a field of weeds was always a sight, but if you passed cultivated flower beds every day, none of them drew your notice.

Two people were not one

I think you'd better learn to control that imagination of yours, Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't," said Marilla crossly.

Y, en vuestro propio caso, recordad bien y meditad sobre esta sencilla distinción (no hacerla como es debido ha sido la perdición de miles):—que vuestra conciencia no es ley.—

We want to be special for being important. But, sometimes... We become important for being special.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.