Distinction Quotes - Page 25

• There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

  Pascal Mercier

  People, Reader, Greater

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• Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.

  Emily Giffin

  Love Is, Life Is, Love Your Life

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• Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Race, Identity

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.828, Simon and Schuster

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• The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Two, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. There’s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I’m guessing that once you’ve discovered this distinction you can’t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Girl, Lonely, Emotional

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

  Andre Gide

  Action, Pleasure, Natural

  ANDRE GIDE (1958). “THE IMMORALIST”

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• Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.

  Jacob Grimm

  Art, Children, Men

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.176, Ageless Reads

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• We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, School

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• I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

  Thomas Harris

  Life, Growing Up, Mistake

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Hands, Unity

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• There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

  Kevin Powers

  Remembered

  Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

  Robin McKinley

  Kings, Men, Looks

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• All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

  Leila Aboulela

  Men, Clothes, Toilets

  Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts." "Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Cutting, Knives, Voice

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Scent of Magic”, p.61, Harlequin

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• A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.

  Bell Hooks

  Hurt, Writing, Reality

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.11, Henry Holt and Company

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• The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.

  Saul Berman

  Business, Marketing, Roles

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• Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Equality, Careers, Voice

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• All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

  Aristotle

  Knowledge, Men, Sight

  Aristotle (1961). “The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick”

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• One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Learning, School

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• God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Life, Ornaments, Half

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• In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Real, Ignorance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Rights, Circles

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1880). “Vindication of natural diet. Refutation of deism. Proposal for putting reform to the vote. Address to the people on the death of the Princess Charlotte. History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, etc. Journal at Geneva (including ghost stories) and on return to England, 1816. The assassins. On the punishment of death. On life. On love. On a future state. Speculations on morals. System of government by juries. Fragment on reform. On the revival of li”

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• Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

  Thomas Paine

  4th Of July, Home, Character

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.92, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Patriotic, Names, Evil

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Glowing, Cities, Would Be

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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