Quotes About Distinction

What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody.

Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

You lose your repute the moment when you compare yourself with unworthy people.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Some things are just straw, and some things are gold, and sometimes you just have to know which is which.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

The experience of psychoanalysis was probably more useful to me as a writer than as a neurotic, although there may be a false distinction there.

Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

C'est la pratique de la torture qui permet de distinguer à coup sûr l'homme de l'animal.

Imagine not being able to distinguish the real cause from that without which the cause would not be able to act as a cause.

I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a relation and one who is not a relation; for surely the pollution is the same in either case

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between love and in love

The scariest thing for non-Jewish Americans in talking about Palestinian self-determination is the fear of being or sounding anti-Semitic. The people of Israel are suffering, and Jewish people have a long history of oppression. We still have some responsibility for that, but I think it's important to draw a firm distinction between the policies of Israel, as a state, and Jewish people. That's kind of a no-brainer, but there is very strong pressure to conflate the two.

You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

I'm no John Grisham or Thomas Pynchon

One remarkable characteristic of Jesus' ministry, from beginning to end, is that He never made a hard and fast distinction between healing people's sicknesses and delivering them from demons.

If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.

Any award the NBA gives you, whether it's on the court or off the court, it's definitely an honor.

I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.

I'm not getting an Emmy.

There's a difference between a celebrity and an entertainer. One has talent.