Between Quotes

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

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.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.