Quotes About Distinction

To separate the main issue from the side issues is the first task of the orderly mind.

I fancy he is attempting to purge himself of — all manner of things. I beg him to take heart, for our Lord surely watches over him as he watches over us all and God judges the actions of men but surely too He judges them by their hearts and their minds, else how can one act be held distinct from another? And surely that distinction He would make

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

I often mention Alice Cooper. I don't wanna sound like Alice Cooper or be confused with him at all, and I certainly don't think we are.

We wanna be the first American Alpha. We don't wanna be the second Team Angle or World's Greatest Tag Team. We've worked so hard to get to where we are, and we feel like we're unique and different. Yes there are similarities but we're still different.

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

She got herself a boyfriend she wants us to meet. He's studying chemistry. A senior. She said that 3 or 4 times on the phone. Senior. Like it's supposed to mean something to me, as long as I been grown. Senior ain't nothing but a year. Young man's distinction.

On October 8 Washington convened a war council to determine "whether it will be adviseable to re-inlist any Negroes in the new Army—or whether there be a Distinction between such as are Slaves & those who are free?" The Council voted "unanimously to reject all Slaves, & by a great Majority to reject Negroes altogether.

The point is that our difference from beasts is wall to wall, permeating every moment of our day.

I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.