Between Quotes

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?

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.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.

In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.