Between Quotes

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.