Between Quotes

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.