Between Quotes

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

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 came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.