B Quotes
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“Between us, by the peace of God, such truth can now be told;
Yea, there is strength in striking root, and good in growing old.
We have found common things at last, a marriage and a creed,
And I may safely write it now, and you may safely read.”
“Between us, we had over seventy years of marriage under our belts when we met each other in 2021. One would assume we would know everything there was to know about commitment, communication, and the covenant of a marriage relationship. Yet in all those years with our first spouses, we’d never experienced the intimacy and power of praying together. We’d never held hands to pray out loud for our marriage or each other. We weren’t even sure why or how to do that for ourselves until the darkness of our respective grief drove us down to our knees.”
Source: Soul Mates: Path to a Praying Partnership
“Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.
Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”
“Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything?”
“Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.”
“Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the figure of a man.
His steps go with “him” in the same reality,
But I look at him and them, and they’re two things:
The “man” goes walking with his ideas, false and foreign,
And his steps go with the ancient system that makes legs walk.
I see him from a distance without any opinion at all.
How perfect that he is in him what he is — his body,
His true reality which doesn’t have desires or hopes,
But muscles and the sure and impersonal way of using them.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
“Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...”
“Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi.”
“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
“Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?”
Source: The Woman in Black
“Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!”
“Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.”
“Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.”
“Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.”
“Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.”
“Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.”
“between you and i, i found just the sky, a sky with a million of stars, but i can see just the moon, not because it's the biggest one but it's the closest and the shiniest between all. so i keep talking to that moon at night, hoping one day will talk with me, before the sun come back or the storm hide all.”
“Between you and me there lies a lie that is more true than trust between us.”
“Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.”
“Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.”
“Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.”
“Between your legs
I press my tongue
and watch your
leaves change color”
Source: A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems
“Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.”
“Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.”
“Beulah, peel me a grape”
“Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.”
“Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now.”
“Beverly was a very attractive woman; unfortunately, it was always the wrong men who would be attracted to her.”
Source: New Reform
“Bevo a una casa distrutta,
alla mia vita sciagurata,
a solitudini vissute in due
e bevo anche a te:
all'inganno di labbra che tradirono,
al morto gelo dei tuoi occhi,
ad un mondo crudele e rozzo,
ad un Dio che non ci ha salvato.”
“Bevve un sorso di caffè e si sporse in avanti per ravvivare il fuoco, poi prese un libro dal tavolino e cercò di concentrarsi nella lettura.
Tentativo patetico e inutile.
Pensò allora a come sarebbe stato condividere il ranch con una donna, un pensiero che negli ultimi tempi ritornava spesso.
Pensò a Renée che se ne era andata con Craig Haas.
Pensò a Rosalyn, che gli riscaldava il corpo ma non il cuore.
Poi pensò a Maggie.
A come si era sciolta tra le sue braccia e a come si era sciolto lui quando l’aveva sentita fremere contro di sé.”
Source: Tutta colpa del vento
“Bevíem a glops
aspres vins de burla
el meu poble i jo.
Escoltàvem forts
arguments del sabre
el meu poble i jo.
Una tal lliçó
hem hagut d'entendre
el meu poble i jo.
La mateixa sort
ens uneix per sempre:
el meu poble i jo.
Senyor, servidor?
Som indestriables
el meu poble i jo.
Tenim la raó
contra bords i lladres
el meu poble i jo.
Salvàvem els mots
de la nostra llengua
el meu poble i jo.
A baixar graons
de dol apreníem
el meu poble i jo.
Davallats al pou,
esguardem enlaire
el meu poble i jo.
Ens alcem tots dos
en encesa espera,
el meu poble i jo.”
Source: Les cançons d'Ariadna
“Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.”
“Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.”
“Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.”
“Beware! Abstain from shedding blood without a valid cause. There is nothing more harmful than this which brings about one’s ruin. The blood that is willfully shed shortens the life of a state. On the Day of Judgement it is this crime for which one will have to answer first. So, beware! Do not wish to build the strength of your state on blood for, it is this blood which ultimately weakens the state and passes it into other hands. Before me and my God no excuse for willful killing can be entertained.”
“Beware:
All too often,
We say
What we hear others say.
We think
What we’re told that we think.
We see
What we’re permitted to see.
Worse!
We see what we’re told that we see.
Repetition and pride are the keys to this.
To hear and to see
Even an obvious lie
Again
And again and again
May be to say it,
Almost by reflex
Then to defend it
Because we’ve said it
And at last to embrace it
Because we’ve defended it
And because we cannot admit
That we’ve embraced and defended
An obvious lie. …
Thus, without thought,
Without intent,
We make
Mere echoes
Of ourselves—
And we say
What we hear others say.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“Beware and be weary of "friends" who can shame you or destroy your life publicly, then try to fix it with a secret apology when you are alone.”
“Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.”
“Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“Beware! Authentic communication is not to be confused with Grandma's unfiltered comments!”
“Beware by whom you are called sane.”
Source: Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson
“Beware, Diomedês! Forbear, Diomedês! Do not try to put yourself on a level with the gods; that is too high for a man's ambition. The immortal gods are one race, men that walk upon the earth are another.”
“Beware! Friends are like chameleons, for they can turn enemies overnight.”
“Beware he whose reputation is burnished bright, oft times the darkness is hidden by the polished light.”
Source: The Empress:
“Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.”
Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon