Top 23 Undistinguished Quotes
#2. Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli
#3. I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.
Ayn Rand
#4. She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.
Jerry Spinelli
#5. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. A silence thick like Georgia air in summer settled over us.
Matt Abraham
#8. Welfare states come in different shapes and sizes; they are constructed on diverging conceptions of social rights and duties; some stress equality and solidarity, others freedom; and the range of policy objectives is vast and widely dissimilar.
Kees Van Kersbergen
#9. In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
Pico Iyer
#10. Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.
Lyn Hejinian
#12. Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather ... heaven is near in another realm.
Paul P. Enns
#13. I understand if you choose to leave. If it means you get to live, I'd let you go. But you need to know, I won't ever regret a moment we've spent together
Jennifer Silverwood
#14. I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
Sammy Hagar
#15. He thought about her deliberately. Hard. Nothing happened. He thought of her fair, undistinguished, fresh face that made your heart miss a beat when you thought about it. His heart missed a beat. Obedient heart! Like the first primrose. Not any primrose. The first primrose.
Ford Madox Ford
#16. The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.
Jane Jacobs
#17. We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
Yann Martel
#18. There's always something or someone to do.'But don't you ever find it too much work, Howard?' asks Flora, 'All this dressing and undressing, all these undistinguished climaxes, all this chasing for more of the same, is it really, really, worth the effort?'Of course' [ ... ].
Malcolm Bradbury
#19. According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'
Mia Love
#20. May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!
Joseph Warren
#21. Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
Allan Sloan
#22. Maybe that was why he bothered me so much-I didn't want to accept that someone so lovely could really be that ugly.
Kelley R. Martin
#23. There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.
David Hume
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