B Quotes
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“Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.”
Source: I love Miss Tilli Bean
“Between funny and witty Falls the shadow”
Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
“Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“Between giving up and holding on
Between initiation and rejection
Between the saids and unsaids
Between the understood and miss-understood
Between Life's priorities
We lost each other.”
“Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.”
“Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.”
“Between God and the soul there is no between.”
“Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.”
“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.”
“Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.”
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
“Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.”
“Between high dunes and low dunes and sea oats she walked, a blonde nomad wandering among shorebirds.”
Source: A Delirious Summer
“Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.”
“Between himself and her there was that kind of division which is more insurmountable than enmity; for estrangements produced by good judgment will last when those of feeling break down in smiles. Not the lovers who part in passion, but the lovers who part in friendship, are those who most frequently part forever.”
Source: The Hand Of Ethelberta
“Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.”
“Between his dueling and military career, Jackson had been shot so many times that scholars says he "rattled like a bag of marbles" when he walked as a result of all of the never-removed bullets taking up residence in his body. The pieces of shrapnel he carries around like internal medals of honor are about ten times larger than your balls and infinity times as armored.”
Source: How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.”
“Between his howls of torment, his rediscovered English told me a lot. An earth shattering storm was about to hit, but not this one with wind and water. Between bits and pieces and shocking details, he begged me to kill him. “Matame!” He shouted. “Matame! Por favor! Matame, senor!"
I waited. He talked. I could hardly believe what I heard. But it was definitely a deathbed confession. I knocked a smoke loose from its box, hunched over and fought off the wind and rain and lit it. “Nothing I can do for you, pal. You’re gonna die; and mercy killing is against the law.” I stripped the magazine out of his AK-47 and slipped it into one of my pockets.
“There’s one shot,” I said. I checked the chamber of the gun, tossed the rifle into the sand ten yards behind him. When I walked away, he was still talking, screaming actually. Sayanara, bitch.”
Source: Immigration Invasion! A Family Affair
“Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.”
“Between hope and fear, let us kindle imagination and grow resilience, creating the momentum to transform rusty patterns and inhabit the wisdom of each precious “moment.” (“Going back to yesterday“)”
“Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.”
Source: Ethics
“Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.”
Source: Jack Kerouac: selected letters, 1940-1956
“Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
Source: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.”
“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
“Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.”
“Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.”
“Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of Gene Simmons. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off.”
“Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.”
Source: Selected poems
“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”
Source: Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
“Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.”
“Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.”
“Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.”
“Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.”
“Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
“Between May 2018 and August 2024, Americans gambled $308 billion through legal sportsbooks, including $121 billion in 2023, more than they spent that year on video games, movie tickets, music streaming services, books, and concert tickets combined.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.”
“Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.”
“Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list of questions. Invariably, there will be this part where they think you're a writer for Letterman: "Just off the top of your head, tell me the 10 most influential bands on you." And you're actually asked to come up with a spontaneous list. It's like, "Dude, I'm not living in High Fidelity."”
“Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?”
“Between me and You, there is only me. Take away the me, so only You remain.”
“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going back, and suddenly there is this tension. I just walk down the street, we were just on the way. And she thinks I'm a rapist. And now I feel guilty, even though I'm a damn poor did not.”
“Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.”
“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
Source: Opened Ground
“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging”
Source: Death of a Naturalist