B Quotes
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“Beyond Borders and Dogma
(Sonnet 1590)
Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
takes a human to home the world.
Leeches obsess over guns and badges,
takes a human to deck the halls.
Beyond borders and dogma,
beyond division and doctrine,
beyond malignant maleficence,
everyone is my kith and kin.
Any ape can boast about their culture,
I'll die roaring for every culture
on earth, except my own.
Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
I stand guard till all are one.
Nationalists mark borders by raising guns,
like dogs mark their territory by raising legs.
Monkeys seek refuge in archaic sovereignty,
Human am I, my refuge is the human race.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.”
“Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.”
“Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.”
“Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED”
“Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.”
“Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.”
“Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.”
“Beyond entrepreneurship and making money is wisdom. You may strike deals and lose your soul in the castrophy of financial success.”
“Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.”
“Beyond existence, there is no death, only non-existence or Non-Being. But without non-existence or Non-Being, the existence of the “material” world would not be possible, and consequently, life would not be possible. Non-existence, or Non-Being, is characterized by an equally important “power” in the existence of existence, or life, itself. (Nonbeing provides or secures the possibility of birth and death or the illusion of transformation.)”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to
tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract
ourselves from the present moment, to be entertained.”
Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual, existence blooms in I-less continuum.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.”
“Beyond fear there is clarity - beyond weakness there is victory - beyond insecurity there is life.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Beyond fundamentalism there is faith.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153”
“Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.”
“Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.”
Source: The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
“Beyond her declaration of love she could not see. But as she rehearsed the intensity of her passion she thought that he must, when the time came, respond. The desire to, at the right time, tell him became, as the years moved forward toward that time, increasingly painful, like a poisoned wound that must heal itself by breaking open. She now thought in anguish of the times, the recent times, when she could have told him, and had been afraid to, and had clumsily withdrawn, when she could have attracted him and drawn his attention to her. When she had watched over him when he was sleeping in the sedan-chair and could have wakened him with a kiss. If only she had let him know, then she could more easily have borne his not preferring her. He was ready to fall in love — and if he had known — he must have loved her — if he had known how much she loved him. The pain of this loss burnt her in every waking moment, that awful 'if only'. She had lost him, and lost him through her own fault. There were no more pleasures now in life.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past”
“Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.”
“Beyond him lay a small, boggy lake, a few patches of brush along its edge. There was the scent of decay, and Rich’s nostrils flared in disgust. His feet slowed just as one of the bushes moved. He jerked to a stop and his knee twisted in his haste. A stone’s throw away, a grizzly bear, interrupted from its feast of carrion, stood up on hind legs.”
Source: The Dark Divide
“Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.”
“Beyond his volition, Vane's gaze lowered to her lips, to the soft rose-tinted curves he now knew so well. Their shape was etched in his mind, their taste imprinted on his senses.
Patience's lids fluttered down. She stretched upward on her toes.
Vane couldn't have drawn back from the kiss- couldn't have avoided it- had his life depended on it.
Their lips touched, without the heat, without the driving compulsion that remained surging in their souls. Both held it back, denying it, content for one timeless moment simply to touch and be touched. To let the beauty of the fragile moment stretch, to let the magic of their heightened awareness wash over them.
It left them quivering. Yearning. Curiously breathless, as if they'd been running for hours, curiously weak, as if they'd been battling for too long and nearly lost.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.”
“Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?”
“Beyond Inclusion (The Sonnet)
It is not really inclusion that we must aim for,
Rather we must work to outgrow the need for inclusion.
It is not really global harmony that we must aim for,
We must outgrow the very term international relations.
It is not really a reform in policy that we must aim for,
Rather we must aim to outgrow the need for policy aids.
It is not really social awareness we must aim to advocate,
Rather we must be the living epitome of social oneness.
It is not a flea market of parties that we must aim to build,
Rather we must turn the very term partisanism obsolete.
It is not a junkyard of ideologies that we must aim to raise,
Absorbing good from all, let us stop being ideological elites.
Plenty of time we have wasted on arguments of philosophy.
Now let's go out on the streets and soil to get our hands dirty.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.”
Source: Milton's Paradise Lost
“Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.”
“Beyond it were a dozen skeletons still shackled to the wall, left there even after they'd decomposed like a forgotten detail in a fairy tale.”
Source: A Whole New World
“Beyond its entertainment value, 'Baywatch' has enriched and, in many cases, helped save lives. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to continue with a project which has had such a significance for so many.”
“Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.”
“Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration.”
“Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.”
“Beyond King and Crumpet
(Uncoronation Sonnet)
There's not one but two UKs -
one is United Kingdom,
where animals worship a king,
another is United Kin-dom,
where humans live as kin.
Storm's coming! Huts and homes
of the humble will thrive,
while castles and palaces
of thieves will crumble.
Either we are explorers
of equality and dignity, or
we are crown worshipping animal.
Putting all kings and queens to bed,
Citizens must come out and work the soil.
Enough chasing the parade of dead meat,
March your own parade, tackling turmoil!
Crown, cross and rigid constitution,
Mindlessness has taken many a form.
Beyond the fetish of king and crumpet,
Beckon the rays of an honorable dawn.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Beyond labels and religions, character is the truest measure of a soul.”
“Beyond leadership and management, school administrators handle legal and compliance issues, ensuring the school adheres to local regulations.”
“Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.”
“Beyond life, beyond death, my love for thee is eternal.”
Source: Capturing the Devil
“Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.”
Source: Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
“Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.”
“Beyond Man's knowing truth lies another truth unconquered...”
Source: Memories of Recurrent Echoes
“Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.”
“Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.”
“Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.”
“Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing,
the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”
Source: A Personal Anthology
“Beyond my body my veins are invisible.”
“Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.”
“Beyond My Feelings
Now I can see clearly
As the light shines brightly
Beyond the wearied cloudy night
And the awesome fright.
Intensely the light shone
And God's vision visibly shown.
But my feelings, so confusing
Set my feeble mind doubting
And my eyes too heavy to see
The shining Light from across the sea.
Beyond my feelings now I see
As steadfastly to God's word I look.
Then, I see the Light from access the sea
And left my faith off the hook.”