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.
George Orwell

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise Pascal

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan Watts

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch