Distinctness Of Quotes

#1. There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

William Osler

#2. I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Moreover, I am aware that most of the irreligious deny the existence of God, and the distinctness of the human soul from the body, for no other reason than because these points, as they allege, have never as yet been demonstrated.

Rene Descartes

#4. I never went to my high school dance, and didn't date much.

Kerri Strug

#5. I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

Kacey Musgraves

#6. I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. This may be one of the most astonishing, and tragic, hummingbird effects in all of twentieth-century technology: someone builds a machine to listen to sound waves bouncing off icebergs, and a few generations later, millions of female fetuses are aborted thanks to that very same technology.

Steven Johnson

#8. This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from that Cause we can apprehend

Athanasius Of Alexandria

#9. Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds.

George R R Martin

#10. The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Jack Welch

#11. The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

Eric Hoffer

#12. Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#13. I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

William James

#14. Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness).

Lev Shestov

#15. It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors.

Edmund Burke

#16. Course, and were part of his life with Jiro.

Edmund De Waal

#17. For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

Edgar Allan Poe

#18. Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.

Eugene Dubois

#19. daily and hourly presence and keeping, were preached with the same distinctness and urgency

Andrew Murray

#20. I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

Grace Slick

#21. What should I do - how should I act now, this very day ... What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

George Eliot

#22. Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

Charles Dickens

#23. The important talent is the talent to develop one's talent.

Howard Stein

#24. I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.

Charles M. Schulz

#25. PEACETIME BY LUKE MOGELSON I was living in the armory on Lexington Avenue. First Sergeant Diaz had given me the keys.

Anonymous

#26. The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.

George Inness

#27. We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

F. Sionil Jose