Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Weather systems are natural heat engines, and like all other heat engines, both natural and artificial, they are driven not by temperature per se, but by differences in temperature between one location and another.
I think Canadians have always been interested in the choices Americans make because the choices you make inevitably impact upon us... and how we make sure that we get that balance right between continuing to have a good relationship and standing for the things we believe in is what we expect of ourselves.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
The key virtue of orbital assembly is that it eliminates the tight connection between the size of the expedition and the size of the rockets used to launch it.
It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential.
Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It's like a fingerprint.
Wherever you go in Europe, you'll find each country has particular flavours in their baked goods. It is one of the big differences between Europe and the United States.
I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
