Quotes About Distinction

Right away I'm associated with what Donald Trump stands for and all that because I introduced him. I never signed up for that, I never wanted that. That doesn't mean I support 100 percent of the things he says.

Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction.

Thence it follows that in God essence is not really distinct from person; and yet that the persons are really distinguished from each other. For person, as above stated (Q[29], A[4]), signifies relation as subsisting in the divine nature. But relation as referred to the essence does not differ therefrom really, but only in our way of thinking; while as referred to an opposite relation, it has a real distinction by virtue of that opposition. Thus there are one essence and three persons.

Hence, according to the Philosopher (Metaph. x), "things which are diverse are absolutely distinct, but things which are different differ by something.

Therefore, as the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction of things for the sake of the perfection of the universe, so it is the cause of inequality. For the universe would not be perfect if only one grade of goodness were found in things.

This word "other" [alius], however, in the masculine sense, means only a distinction of "suppositum"; and hence we can properly say that "the Son is other than the Father," because He is another "suppositum" of the divine nature, as He is another person and another hypostasis.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.