Contradistinguished Quotes

#1. A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who 'lives well.'

Elbert Hubbard

#2. The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of which they consist.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

Oscar Wilde

#4. I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.

Gerald Seymour

#5. If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you.

John Landy

#6. If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

Rumi

#7. It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.

Martin O'Malley

#8. I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century ... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Peter Wolf

#9. Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

Alice Morse Earle