Quotes About Distinction

Don't let the things that matter least to you rob time from the things that matter most to you.

Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you?

Il poter cambiare la nostra natura, non è esattamente questo ciò che ci distingue dagli animali?

In Genesis 1, some have attempted to make a distinction between the expanse in which the birds fly (Genesis 1:2018) and the expanse in which the sun, moon, and stars were placed (Genesis 1:719); this was in an effort to have the sun, moon, and stars made in the second expanse. This is not a distinction that is necessary from the text, and is only necessary if a canopy is assumed.

on the one hand faith kids and nature kids and on the other the rest, those you might call, under your breath of course, New Kids? Were these a centimetre taller than others of their age, a glimmer brighter of eye, a syllable more articulate? A step ahead in the race, a pace more sure-footed? A decibel less loud?

I must, unfortunately, stress this point, since psychology is the youngest of all the sciences, and therefore the one that suffers most from preconceived opinions. The fact that we have only recently discovered psychology shows plainly enough that it has taken us all this time to make a clear distinction between ourselves and the contents of our minds.

Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.

Tener claridad sobre lo importante equivale a tener claridad sobre lo que no es importante.

No es lo mismo estar dormido que estar durmiendo, de la misma manera que no es lo mismo estar jodido que estar jodiendo. -- En respuesta al senador y mosén Lluis María Xirinacs que le recriminaba estar dormido en su escaño del senado. --

A threat is a statement of an intention to do some harm, period. It offers no conditions, no alternatives, no ways out. It does not contain the words if, or else, until, unless. Sentences that do contain those words are not threats; they are intimidations, and there is an important distinction.

Cum lesne se poate vedea poezia este dou? lucruri bine distincte...

Thus more explicitly and more emphatically than the other New Testament writers does St. John declare the divinity of Jesus Christ as eternal Son of God and at the same time the distinction between the Son and the Father."46

The problem was that the American media and public could never distinguish between the lie and the truth.

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.

I'm not Bill Gates. And I'm not Ted Turner.

There's a difference between reality TV and reality. There's a big difference.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

I don't make the distinction between whether or not I'm going to do a TV show or movies. It's all based on material. It's about whatever comes along that I think I can add the most to, bring something to the character, and have some fun with.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.