Between Quotes

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.