As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.
In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.
But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.
I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.
The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished one from another almost, in many regions, to the level of the single neurons.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind. " The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour.
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.