“What is right and what is practicable are two different things.”

“What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.”

“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”

“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”

“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”

“You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?"
"It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize."
"Must be a human thing."
"Exactly.”

“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.”

“To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.”

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.”

“What we call right-wing and liberal media in this country are really just two different strategies of the same kind of nihilistic lizard-brain sensationalism.”