Balance Quotes - Page 9

• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Trying, Three, Four

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• A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

  Alva Myrdal

  Has Beens, Written, Deterrence

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

  Patty Murray

  White, House, United States

  "Bush, Clinton in campaign blitz", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

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• In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.

  Kenneth Lay

  Economy, Cases, Enron

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Distance, Mean, Special

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• It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fun, Important, Minefields

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• Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the "living water," we miss the joy we could have.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Fashion, Struggle, People

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• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Easy, Symmetrical

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Best Friend, Adversity

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• Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Money, Quality, Want

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• Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Opportunity, Joy

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  Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Success, Failure, Not Giving Up

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 24, 2014.

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• It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Couple, Women, Mean

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.287, Penguin

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• Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Lying, Tickets, Wells

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• Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

  Pope John Paul II

  Travel, Men, Obligation

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• Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Real

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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• The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

  Herbert Read

  Law, Growth, Principles

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  E. P. Thompson

  Real, Nuclear, Metaphysical

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• The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

  Cliff Stearns

  Technology, Spy, Purpose

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• We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  New Year, Drawing, Years

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  I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

  Tom DeLay

  Unions, Want, Spending

  "Meet the Press", December 12, 2003.

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• The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

  Maurice Barres

  Opposites, Political, Doe

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• The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

  Prince Charles

  Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

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

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