Quotes of: Between Keyword

Words are very powerful," Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. "And they take on more power the more they're spoken.... "The more they're and and ,in specific, consistent combinations.

Fangirl

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.

A Fine and Private Place

...every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?...

A Familiar Rain

And fetch some straw. We’ll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn’t sleep soft tonight.” “Straw. I love luxury.

The Forbidden Rose

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

The Fault in Our Stars

... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

The Graveyard Book

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

The Given Day

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.

God Emperor of Dune

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

Great House

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Grendel

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

The Guermantes Way

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

The Hero of Ages

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.

A Husband After God's Own Heart

A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

An Accomplished Woman

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms