A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them
Carolus Linnaeus
In this business there is Plan A, in which you become successful by living and acting with a lot of integrity. Then there`s Plan B, where you sell your soul to the Devil. I still find it hard to distinguish one from the other.
Sharon Stone
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingne...
Alfie Kohn
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
Alan Curry
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and...
Alisa Gravitz
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
Max Lerner
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there`s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by...
Anne Covey
Roosevelt supported my suggestion that labor leaders who wanted to distinguish themselves should draw up such a code and let us take a look at it.
Alex Aguila
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn`t distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
Allan Bristow
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn`t distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
Alan Pardee
Most modern authors failed to distinguish between two very different phenomena: the production of a new taxon, and the production of a new phenotype.
Alejandro Queral
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we`d be hard put to distinguish them.
Stokely Carmichael
It`s important that we distinguish between legalized gambling and illegal gambling. I want to emphasize that we don`t condone any form of illegal gambling. But when it comes to legalized gambling, the question is where do you draw the line? You are talkin...
Bill Daly
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
AJ Hanson
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, ...
Alan Skrainka
I`ve learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Richard Chamberlain