Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt really. In the movies now so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device It's just about a human being.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Ardor n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second their imagination and third their industry.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very style which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.