There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.
I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.
People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.
I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.
Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.
There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.
There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
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.
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
I like a no-drama set. I welcome visitors by and large; I like music playing on sets between set-ups - all that stuff.
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
It's very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you've done.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
