Quotes about bourne (13 Quotes)


    Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

    I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. I thought sometimes I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Beulah; and now and then a freshening gale, wakened my hope, bore my spirit, triumphantly towards the bourne: but I could not reach it, even in fancy,--a counteracting breeze blew off land, and continually drove me back. Sense would resist delirium; judgment would warn passion


    Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, To full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

    All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps theyre bad, its only evident theyre codes. Mores bind the race. Coaction then occurs. Thought and motion in accord. A oneness then of purpose and survival so results. But now against that code there is transgression. And so because the code was held, whatever code it was, and man sought comfort in mans company, he held back his deed and so entered then the bourne in which no being laughs or has a freedom in his heart.



    I know some of you out there consider athletic contests to be tests of skill, but most who have coached them or even been passionate fans know better - they are morality plays, and their gods are unforgiving. They don't do random, ... The Bourne Supremacy.

    Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark; And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place; The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face; When I have crost t.

    Director Matthew Bourne said he was delighted that Burton snapped up 12 of the popular tickets. Bourne requested the rights to the story -- which follows a scientist who creates a young man with scissors for hands -- almost 10 years ago from Burton. I gave up on it once or twice, ... I couldn't talk about it any longer and had to get it out of my head.

    Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.



    The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.



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