Between Quotes

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.