Between Quotes
14687 quotes by 7570 authors
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As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of…
— Edward Abbey
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It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
— Edward Abbey
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
— Edward Abbey
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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
— A. S. Byatt
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Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. TheÂ…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It…
— Thomas Paine
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There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.…
— Richard Avedon
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I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends…
— Annie Leibovitz
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A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
— Annie Leibovitz
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I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
— Michael Bolton
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Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals…
— Terry Pratchett
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The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
— Terry Pratchett
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But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
— John Irving
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It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
— Henry James
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
— Wayne Gretzky
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To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or…
— Woody Allen
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Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.
— Woody Allen
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