Famous quotes containing the word distinctive:
“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”
—Alexander Smith (18301867)
“Progress, mans distinctive mark alone,
Not Gods, and not the beasts: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (18511931)
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