Balance Quotes - Page 6

• What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

  Barbara Jordan

  Government, Ideas, Belief

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

  Ilka Chase

  Government, Order, Democracy

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

  Amos Oz

  Running, Country, Years

  "Israel Under The Volcano". Interview with Jeremy Caplan, www.newsweek.com. February 28, 1999.

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• Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, Fruit, Helping

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• Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.

  Joan Konner

  Taken, Reality, Two

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• The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Gay, Bravery, Age

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.23, Knopf

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• There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".

  James E. Faust

  Strength, Self, Order

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

  Trevor Dunn

  Trying, Achieve

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• This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

  Khandi Alexander

  Needs, Hiatus, Comedy

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• Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

  Mario Lopez

  Drama, Comedy, Good Work

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• Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

  Richard G. Scott

  Hard Work, Skills, Leader

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• It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Simple, Too Much, Complicated

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• I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

  Dick Schaap

  Kings, Jobs, Thinking

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• I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

  Pat Riley

  Heart, Simple, Choices

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• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, Thinking, Order

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book translated by Milton Waldman. Chapter 12: "Conversation with Jean Martet", 1930.

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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Heart, Laughing, Today's Society

  FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Apr 10, 2014

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• And Big Night, I think by the end, the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Brother, Night, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, World, Moderation

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• I want balance in my life.

  Ron Dellums

  Want

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• But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Struggle, Infrastructure, Internals

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• The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Form, Pictorial

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

  Edmund Burke

  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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• I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Thinking, Important

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• As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

  Rachel True

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

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• Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Certain, Effects

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