Quotes About Distinction

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

A necromancer is one whose magic art makes the dead speak. An archaeologist is one whose spade uncovers forgotten centuries. Sometimes the distinction between the two becomes dismayingly thin.

The term Judeo-Christianity does nothing but muddle two things that need to be distinguished, probably the intent of the word from the beginning.

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics ' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emerald.

The desert rat carries one distinction like a halo: he has learned to love the kind of country that most people find unlovable.

First, as I have said, the distinction between natural science and the philosophy of nature is not always observed in practice by either philosophers or scientists. Nor is it desirable that investigations in these areas be kept rigorously separate.

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

One among a thousand.

The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and those who don't.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.

I think there's a fundamental distinction between character-driven movies that are just really lovely slice-of-life movies and character-driven movies that you remember 20 or 30 years later; the common denominator with the ones you remember is that they all have some really complicated emotional problem at their core.

Gowachin Law made a special distinction between prejudgment and bias. McKie considered this. The interpretation of bias was: "If I can rule for a particular side I will do so." For prejudgment: "No matter what happens in the arena I will rule for a particular side." Bias was permitted, but not prejudgment.