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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 difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

I train all the time and the weird thing is I'm in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids - either they haven't trained hard enough or they aren't serious enough.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.