B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.”
Source: Loverboys
“Between the sun and the moon, it'd be crazy to choose - blossom your own mind.”
“Between the tee and the outcome of success by Furnished with thorns .. Duds retreat from the first step and smart complete the road and geniuses go again and again and pave the way for those behind them”
“Between the tenets of those two men [W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington], a race strived to untangle
its convoluted root, urged its whole self forward, and hurtled
toward the door America had fought so hard to keep closed.”
Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
“Between the thermals, downdrafts, and quirky winds, I wasn’t sure how anybody kept the things aloft except with a liberal application of positive thought.”
Source: The Cold Dish
“Between the time I first started working in advertising in 1998 and now, the word brand has replaced identity. We are no longer individuals so much as we are brands. We're individual brands. Individuals are basically left to define their individuality by staying off the internet, which in and of itself can be a brand, the opting-out brand.”
“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!”
“Between the truth and the faith, we must always choose the first one.”
“Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.”
“Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.”
“Between the two poles of community - blood and ideal - stretches the enormous and, to a certain degree, indeterminate public sphere, which is not quite comprehensible in either political or economic terms and where the entire risk of the humiliation of human dignity is given.”
Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.”
Source: Talking woman
“Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.”
Source: Collected Works
“Between the unenlightened human being and the Enlightened one, the Buddha, there are a number of intermediate degrees, embodied in different
people at different stages of spiritual development. Most people are still short of Enlightenment, to a greater or lesser extent, but at the same time they are not wholly unenlightened. They stand somewhere between the unenlightened state and the state of full Enlightenment, and thus make up the spiritual hierarchy, the higher reaches of which can be referred to as the Bodhisattva hierarchy. By now we know enough about Bodhisattvas to have an appreciation of the intensity of their aspiration and commitment to the spiritual life. But even among Bodhisattvas there are degrees of spiritual attainment. The principle of spiritual hierarchy is very important.”
Source: The Bodhisattva Ideal : Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism
“Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.”
Source: Anthony Adverse
“Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.”
“Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.”
Source: City on Fire
“Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.”
Source: Lectures on Literature
“Between the world we see
and the things we fear,
there are doors.
When they are opened,
nightmares become reality.”
“Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.”
“Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.”
“Between them, she undid the buttons holding the placket of his breeches closed; her small hand slid beneath the fabric, and found him.
He sucked in breath at that first innocent touch; his control quaked as her grip firmed, then her fingers eased and she stroked, and he felt like growling.
Releasing her waist, with a quick tug he raised her skirts and reached beneath. Found the soft flesh between her thighs and caressed, then lightly probed.
She shuddered, caught her breath, then her fingers trailed tantalizingly down his length. Closing her hand about his turgid flesh, she gently tugged.
Her meaning couldn't have been clearer.
And this time he had no ability, no thought in his head, to deny her.
Just a small adjustment of her body over his and he could draw her down and sheath his erection in her slick softness; despite the potent attraction, he knew that this time it couldn't be that way. Not for her. Not the first time. He was too large, too engorged, for her to take him easily that way; she might balk, and find it too difficult to go on...
Deftly he turned her and tumbled her down to the cushions. She went readily, reassured when he moved with her, willingly surrendering to the pull of one small hand gripping his shoulder. He settled between her thighs, spread wide on either side of his hips, the fingers of one hand still buried within her sheath, his other hand cradling her head, keeping her immersed in their kiss.”
Source: The Taste of Innocence
“Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.”
“Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!”
Source: The works of John Donne
“Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.”
“Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.”
“Between this sky and these faces turned toward it, nothing on which to hang a mythology, a literature, an ethic, or a religion, but stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.”
“Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.”
Source: Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
“Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.”
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.”
“Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.”
“Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything to win an election-except get the most votes.”
“Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it nevertheless be possible to understand one another? Is real communication possible if word and language betray us every time? Shall, in the end, only the language of tanks and guns prevail and not human reason and understanding?”
“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
“Between two extraordinarily high dangers, the wise man choses the one he can at least fight against!”
“Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most Bardolators would choose the photograph. This is not just because it would presumably show what Shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious Holbein. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross.”
Source: On photography
“Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.”
“Between two people everything becomes complicated when only one is in love and when both are in love, complication disappears and there remains only the beauty of simplicity.”
“Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.”
“Between two stools one sits on the ground.”
“Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is your nature. For thoughts come and go - they are accidental - but that inner space always remains. Clouds gather and go, disappear - they are accidental - but the sky remains. You are the sky.”
“Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.”
Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star,
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be! The eternal surge
Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar
Our bubbles; as the old burst, new emerge,
Lash'd from the foam of ages; while the graves
Of Empires heave but like some passing waves.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.”
Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
“Between urine and filth we are born.”