Between Quotes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama.