Quotes About Distinction

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great.

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

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.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

I think that is the difference between the very good and the best.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179

Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.