Balanced Quotes - Page 8

• I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Thinking, Pages

  The NewsBusters Interview, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2012.

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• Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

  Robert Lanza

  Animal, Law, Physics

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact – based indeed on solid journalistic work.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Independent, Government, Criticism

  "The future of newspapers, the end of journalism". Malcolm Turnbull's Speech to the Advanced Centre of Journalism at the University of Melbourne, www.abc.net.au. December 8, 2011.

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• As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thanksgiving, Rich, Clean

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• Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

  Mike Wallace

  Country, People, Foxes

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• Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

  J. C. Watts

  Country, Jobs, Talking

  "Gingrich Picks Up Endorsement From J.C. Watts". "Hannity" with Mark Steyn, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2011.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  J. C. Watts

  Growing Up, Boys, Views

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• Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

  John Smith

  Stupid, Men, Mind

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• I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quilts, Children, Memories

  Nikki Giovanni, “Quilts”

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Party, Cutting

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

  Rachel Caine

  Drug, Noses, Franklin

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.113, Allison & Busby

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• The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mistake, Believe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.458, e-artnow

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• For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Loss, Dark, Gun

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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• People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

  Nora Roberts

  Irritation, People, Entertainment

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• Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Seductive, Brain

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1969-1974”

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• I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

  Beatrix Potter

  Children, Real, Believe

  Journal entry, from the National Trust collection, November 17, 1968.

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• Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Positivity, Boredom, Anxiety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Space, Light

  Diana Gabaldon (1991). “Outlander”, New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada

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• My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.

  Francis Chan

  Children, Nice, Goal

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• Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Good Upbringing, Polite, Persons

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.50, Macmillan

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• I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Moving, Stronger

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.144, Penguin

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• In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Positive, Kindness, Evil

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “I Have Landed”, p.393, Harvard University Press

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• I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Positive, Attitude, Reading

  "Tales of Mere Existence’s Lev Yilmaz". Interview with Matt Baume, sfappeal.com. August 14, 2009.

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• If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.
  I have no interest in living a balanced life.
  I want a life of adventure.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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