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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands. — Evo Morales

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. — Terry Eagleton

The truth; injected subcutaneously leaves distinctive marks on the root of the problem. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The ability to consume pornography is the distinctive characteristic of the imbecile. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. — Dave Barry

An absolutely different and distinctive character. — George Edmund Street

A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power. — Sandra Cisneros

The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ. — Billy Graham

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. — Bill Veeck

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart. — Ethel Merman

A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique. — Primo Angeli

The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908 — J.M. Carlisle

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. — Hattie McDaniel

Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage. — Li Shufu

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it? — Steven D. Levitt

I understood there's a difference between compromise and cooperation, and that to rely on another takes a distinctive kind of strength. — Alexandra Oliva

Until the hen makes a distinctive plan for the eggs, the chicken don't get hatched [ref Directions In Production Engineering Research, Part II] — Priyavrat Thareja

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness. — John Muir

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood. — Alison Gopnik

the best-remembered experiences are distinctive/unique or have a strong emotional component. — Daniel J. Levitin

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. — Margaret Visser

There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it. — Glen Duncan

I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward. — Bryce Dallas Howard

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior. — Ellis Paul Torrance

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. — John Steinbeck

Comets develop their distinctive tails when their surface material begins to evaporate as they approach the Sun. — Bill Bryson

I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible. — R.A. Torrey

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. — Shlomo Sand

There is no one way to render an idea. Let's explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive. — Constance Hale

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present. — John Ruskin

You've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing — Liona Boyd

Fathers left distinctive footprints; sons should think of noble footsteps — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese. — Gene Weingarten

Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way. — Debasish Mridha

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb. — Brian Setzer

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. — Benjamin E. Mays

The sonnet has been the one distinctive characteristic of love present throughout the years. — James Marquess

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

When the pocket becomes empty and the mind becomes full of issues, just think of something distinctive! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture. — Edward Everett

Don't seek to be the loudest voice in the room, but seek to be a clear distinctive voice. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. — John Darnielle

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. — Philip Yancey

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana

I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar. — Erin Morgenstern

Several times Rincewind noticed hydrophobes - their ingrained expressions of self-revulsion at their own bodily fluids - were distinctive — Terry Pratchett

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browning

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts. — Pat Conroy

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation. — Ennio Morricone

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering. — Pope John Paul II

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone ... — John Geddes

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story. — Randy Bachman

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features. — Napoleon Hill

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. — Charles Darwin

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. — Margaret Mead

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge. — Bill Frisell

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive. — Benjamin E. Mays

The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche. — James Wolpert

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. — Sara Sheridan

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity. — Robert Lane Greene

A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38) — Woodrow Phoenix

He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. — John Connolly

Both threshold capability and distinctive capabilities are capabilities that organizations have and are closely related to competencies. — Pearl Zhu

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. — Richard Harris

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm. — Hannah Arendt

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places. — Liev Schreiber

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance. — Aslaug Magnusdottir

It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No. — Jamaica Kincaid

These tracks give to winter hill walking a distinctive pleasure. One is companioned, though not in time. — Nan Shepherd

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it. — Don Herold

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier

The world each person creates for himself is a distinctive world, not the same world others occupy. — Dean C. Barnlund

Aside from your name on the cover of the book, your voice should be your most distinctive signature. — Douglas Wilson

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself. — Marilynne Robinson

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities. — Max Anders

The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is a distinctive American genius, this ability to transmute subversion into a marketable commodity. — George F. Will

Every woman has a distinctive sense of beauty which is uniquely charming and euphoric. — Debasish Mridha

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique. — Keith Emerson

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism. — Ludwig Von Mises

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people's paternity test. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. — Jonathan Dimbleby

Actually, she smelled like some kind of confection. It was a distinctive mix of sugar cookie and ocean. — J.M. Madden

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out. — Kevin Gates

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. — Oliver Stone

The author apologizes for being unable to afford a ghost writer, which explains the lack of a distinctive prose style. — Richard Armour

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson

a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Make it a point each day to score a distinctive point each day — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given. — Peter E. Gordon

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans — Chris Stringer