B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.”
Source: I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
“Between my head and my heart I found peace with the unacceptable.”
“Between my heart and your heart, there is a vein.
Maybe a bridge.”
“Between my husband, my son and I, we'll always have a bit of both in our lives. We need a bit of both because the cities are so different, and we have that luxury. We're really lucky”
“Between my mom and dad, I would hear a lot of Earth, Wind, and Fire. My mom loved Chaka Khan, so that was on in the car a lot.”
“Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.”
“Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.”
“Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way.”
“Between my soul and my spirit, there is a ring of being,
Where you jingle with joy, dance with the divine, my king.”
“Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!”
“Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.”
“Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.”
“Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.”
“Between Newt Gingrich, [Rudi] Giuliani and Chris Christie, they've got like the trifecta of misogyny.”
“Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.”
“Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.”
“Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.”
“Between now and then, after 43 years of European marriage, the whole body of legislation will therefore have to be disentangled. That entails a whole range of specific and very complex questions: what will be the future legal status of the millions of EU citizens in the UK and the millions of Britons on the continent?”
“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs”
“Between one stride and the next, the herd of reindeer faded away. She felt a last few ghosts go with her, shoulder on shoulder, and then they too were gone and she was back, alone, in the world of humans and ravens.”
Source: The Raven and the Reindeer
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing”
Source: Fry: Plays Three
“Between our craves and our regrets stands the live stage of the presence that must give meaning and consistency and feel-good vibes to our life. At the same time, it raises the power of positivity and reconciles the history of our past with the expectations of the future. ("Island of regret.- Island of remorse.")”
“Between our mind and an object there is nothing but self-developed conceptions.”
“Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.”
Source: Narrow Road to the Interior
“Between our way of life and communism there can be no peace, no paralyzing coexistence, no gray neutralism. There can only be conflict-total and without reconciliation.”
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“Between ourselves, I think they use too many rich sauces. One never gets the true flavor of the meat or vegetable. Her Majesty's favorite accompaniment to roast beef is a horseradish cream sauce that is so hot the meat must taste like paper. Most of the vegetables the queen eats are made into purees. And her meat is often turned into ragouts and terrines. Some dishes mix too many flavors. The queen loves butter and cream with everything. So bad for her." And I grinned.
He nodded as if he understood. "So you have a palate that appreciates the taste of good ingredients?"
"I do."
"And how did you develop this?"
"I must have inherited it from my father, who had lived well and appreciated fine food. I was apprenticed to a good cook who produced simple English fare- pork chops, roast lamb, roast pheasant, chicken, sole, lobster. There was a sauce to accompany them, but it never overwhelmed the flavor of the meat or fish.”
Source: Above the Bay of Angels
“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“Between pain and nothing I had chosen nothing.”
Source: New Moon
“Between pampering each other, hell lot of teasing, making
love, and then pampering each other more, we get abundantly
used to each other. We never say, every other day, that we know
we cannot be apart from each other. We just do not want to be.
We like it together and we just know that we shall be together, for
life.”
Source: LOVE TOUCHES ONCE & NEVER LEAVES ...A Blooming & Moving Love Saga!
“Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.”
“Between pattern and deviation lies the golden thread of becoming. Neither fixed nor random, but alive with possibility.”
“Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.”
Source: Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work An
“Between people who truly care and love each other, there are times where you don't need to say anything at all. Those emotions that are hard to express with words. Things like "I love you" and "Thank you", you don't really need to say those words.”
“Between pets, comedy and toys, I try to surround myself with as much fun stuff as I can. That's how I pick projects. It's about whether I'm going to enjoy myself, enjoy the other actors, and enjoy the other people that I'm working with.”
“Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.”
“Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.”
“Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.”
“between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.”
“Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.”
Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book
“Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.”
“Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“Between roars the lion purrs.”
Source: Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
“Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas.”
“Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.”
“Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.”
Source: State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren
“Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.”
“Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.”
“Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. ( " Homeless down in the corner")”