Balanced Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

  James Ellis

  Family, Joy, Mind

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• Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Essence, Worst Enemy

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• What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Children, Important, Spheres

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Real, Mean

  "Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 18, 1963.

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• I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mad, Mind, Mines

  "Strong opinions".

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• Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

  Wes Fesler

  Optimism, Weight, Pessimism

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• A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.

  Laisenia Qarase

  Country, Government, Essentials

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• The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.

  Lou Dobbs

  Media, Ideas, Political

  Studio Briefing, movieweb.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

  Ellen Stern

  Believe, Love Yourself, Heart

  Ellen Sue Stern (1991). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam

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• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
  which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease.
  Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life
  heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Meditation Practice, Healthy, Vitality

  B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

  Neal Gabler

  Democracy, May, Fairs

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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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• Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.

  John J. Geddes

  Ambition, Simple, Views

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• It's a very appropriate show to be doing around Halloween because it's very dark and mysterious. There are some great chorus scenes and some dark stuff and funny stuff as well. It's a really perfect balanced show in many regards.

  James Marvel

  Halloween, Dark, Perfect

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• I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth.
  Not the biased truth,
  Not the liest truth,
  But the highest truth.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Allegiance

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• The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Strong

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Suspense, Ifs, Values

  Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Gottlieb (1997). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.144, Univ of California Press

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• Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

  Nelson Mandela

  White, Justice, Atmosphere

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Sleep, Cities

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Cutting, Debt, Levels

  "Jon Huntsman Moves To Shed Obama Brand By Aligning With House GOP On Medicare, Debt Ceiling" By Jon Ward, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Ambition, Lakes

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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