#tween

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

— Richard Rorty

#difference #ideas #only #people #superficial

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#because #between #cruel #facts #foes

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#between #found #hard #i #know

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#between #civilization #coat #fragile #hideously

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#distinction #expectation #hope #must #rediscover

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#between #bond #god #law #man

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#balance #between #delicate #delicate balance #essence

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#books #conclusively #exactly #men #men and women

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#artists #began #beginnings #beloved #between