Quotes About Distinction

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.

all sin without distinction — is lawlessness.

there is a distinction between understanding and sympathizing.

Qué va, the boy said. There are many good fisherman and some great ones. But there is only you.

No woman should ever give one man all the power to shatter her romantic ideals. There is a big difference between saying, "That one person let me down and I'm hurt," and saying, "I'll never love again." But these two women are not ready to make that distinction. They see the world as offering two options—hurt or be hurt. As Lailani puts it, "I should've stayed the bitch. Nobody hurts the bitch.

she quickly went from "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without getting blood on her fashionable dress" to "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without closing the book she was reading". A subtle distinction, really, but an important one.

Don't differentiate without a difference.

in the work of the soft professions, it becomes very difficult to distinguish between output and activity. And as noted, stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as though it was quite different. But I think this a false distinction, that it is a labelling that helps librarians, and people who know the kind of thing they like and don't want their prejudices to be disturbed.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

The sixth man, the position, I don't have a problem with, but the award - it's not that it's not important, but being singled out, it's like affirmative action or something like that to me. So, it's like, whatever.

I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.

I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.