You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

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.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

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.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both that of the women.

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development this choice is a very clear one.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions like churches and families which stand between the state and individuals.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea the belief that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949 and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.