B Quotes
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“Between astonishment and grief, I was tearless”
“Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.”
Source: I Will Fear No Evil
“Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.”
“Between being loved and feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I am meaningless.”
Source: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
“Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of one thing I am sure: I am sure that I fought not only for what I earnestly believed to be right but for the truest kind of religious freedom intended by the First Amendment the complete separation of church and state.”
“Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.”
Source: Tales of Wonder
“Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4”
Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
“Between birth and death, this life is nothing but a long dream.”
Source: Ganesha: An Afro-Asian story
“Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.”
“Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.”
“Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.”
Source: Marx: Selected Writings
“Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.”
“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.”
“Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.”
“Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.”
“Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death.”
“Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.”
Source: Political writings of William Morris
“Between concentric pavement ripples glide errant echoes originating from beyond the Puddled Metropolis. Windowless blocks and pickle-shaped monuments demarcate the boundaries of patternistic cycles from those wilds kissed neither by starlight nor moonlight. Lethal underbrush of razor-like excrescence pierces at the skins of night, crawls with hyperactive sprouts and verminous vines that howl with contempt for the wicked fortunes of Marshland Organizers armed with scythes and hoes and flaming torches who have only succeeded in crafting their own folly where once stood something of glorious and generous integrity. There are familiar whispers under leaves perched upon by flapping moths. They implore the spirit again to heed the warnings of the vines and to not be swayed by the hubris of these organizing opportunists. One is to stop moving at frantic zigzags through gridlocked streets, stop climbing ladders altogether, stop relying on drainage pipes where floods should prevail, stop tapping one’s feet in waiting rooms expecting to be seen and examined and acknowledged. Rather, one is to eschew unseemly fabrications and conceal oneself beneath the surface of leaves—perhaps even inside the droplets of dew—one is, after all, to feel shameful of the form, of all forms, and seek instead to merge with whispers which do not shun or excoriate, for they are otherwise occupied in the act of designating meaning. Yet, what meaning stands beyond the rectitude of angles and symmetry, but rather in wilds among agitated insects and resplendent bogs and malicious spiders and rippling mosses pronouncing doom upon their surroundings? One is said to find only the same degree of opportunism, and nothing greatly edifying that could serve to extend beyond the banalities of self-preservation. But no, surely there is something more than this—there absolutely must be something more, and it is to be found! Forget what is said about ‘opportunism’—this is just a word and, thusly, a distraction. The key issue is that there are many such campaigns of contrivance mounted by the taxonomic self-interest of categories and frameworks ‘who’ only seek primacy and authority over their consumers. The ascription of ‘this’ may thusly be ascribed also with that of ‘this other’ and so it cannot be ‘that precisely’ because ‘this’ contradicts another ‘that other’ with which ‘this other’ surely claims affiliation. Certainly, in view of such limiting factors, there is a frustration that one is bound to feel that the answers available are constrained and formulaic and insufficient and that one is simply to accept the way of things as though they are defined by the highest of mathematics and do not beget anything higher. One is, thusly, to cease in one’s quest for unexplored possibility. The lines have been drawn, the contradictions defined and so one cannot expect to go very far with these mathematical rules and boundaries in place. There are ways out: one might assume the value of an imaginary unit and bounce out of any restrictive quadrant as with the errant echoes against the rippling pavement of this Puddled Metropolis. One will then experience something akin to a bounding and rebounding leap—iterative, but with all subleaps constituting a more sweeping trajectory—outward to other landscapes and null landscapes, inward through corridors and toward the centroid of circumcentric chamber clusters, into crevices and trenches between paradigms and over those mountain peaks of abstruse calculation.”
Source: Inward and Toward
“Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.”
“Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.”
“Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“Between determination and accomplishment becomes patience.”
“Between determination and accomplishment comes patience.”
“Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.”
“Between each inhale and exhale we die and are reborn.”
“Between each meeting, I usually feel drawn to do a brief practice to let go of what was experienced and settle into the felt sense of opening into receptivity.
It begins with rooting my feet into the stability of the earth;
then listening to the sensations of my muscles, belly and heart with no intent to change anything;
glancing upwards at the spaciousness of the sky as the complement to the solidity beneath my feet;
following the flow of my in-breath and out-breath a couple of times, again with no intention to shift anything but just listen and experience;
and opening into a bowl of receptivity, which may feel like an expansion and quieting of my heart.
The experience is different every time. Sometimes there is pervasive distraction, sometimes a wish to change the tension in my muscles or the depth of my breath, sometimes judgement about how I'm doing this practice, and sometimes it flows like a sweet river.
Most important is being present to what is with as little judgement as possible, even when this means being present to judgement itself.
That level of acceptance, much more than the quality of the practice itself, is what can prepare us to receive our person with the same quality of attending.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.”
Source: Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
“Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.”
“Between Empathy and Compassion lies the toughest and the longest road you will ever take. Patience and calmness are two key resources which make the journey possible.”
“Between endings and beginnings is the world of transformation. Trust the process.”
“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music on our own. We come together not really knowing what the other people having been really listening to and what's been influencing them.”
“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.”
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
“Between "everywhere" and "forever" there is no compromise.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus
“Between extremes, calm finds itself in the center, often perceived as chaotic. It is in the center of the chaos that the wise find the perfect balance, between what should and shouldn't be, what has been and could be, right and wrong, fear and courage. Along this path, luck favors those who are brave enough to ignore the conceptualizations of what is real or unreal, appreciated or unappreciated, possible or impossible. And thus, their life is guided towards risk with safety provided by the third eye.”
“Between extremities
Man runs his course;
A brand, or flaming breath,
Comes to destroy
All those antinomies
Of day and night.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Between films you try to fill your life with hobbies; acting is really so satisfying when you're doing it, and definitely feeds your imagination and creativity to a great degree, but you can't really take much away from it to show for it. I try to fill my time with other things.”
“Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.”
“Between food and fashion, there's always a direct correlations - designers have forever done prints with food on them. Vegetables, fruit, apples. There are some beautiful prints that have been made with fruit over time. I think food and restaurants have become more and more fashionable over time. That's become more of a fashion thing than fashion becoming a food thing. I don't think fashion has gotten so food oriented in the reverse aspect, but I think the whole food industry has gotten very design oriented. I think it's a nice way of putting things together.”
“Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.”
“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.”
“Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.”
“Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.”
Source: The Aristotle's Ethics: Nicomachean Ethics
“Between friends there is no need of justice.”
Source: Works