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Balance
A novel is balanced between a few true
impressions and a multitude of false ones
that make up most of what we call life.
?Saul Bellow
I have the feeling that in a balanced life one
should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
?Art Garfunkel
I make money using my brains
and lose money listening to my
heart. But in the long run
my books balance pretty well.
?Kate Seredy
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie.
Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to --
to balance the family ticket.
?Lillian Carter
The whole imposing edifice
of modern medicine is like the
celebrated tower of Pisa -
slightly off balance.
?Prince of Wales Charles
People with great gifts are easy to find,
but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
The balance of nature is
reached when heating the
house costs as much as
going south for the winter.
?James H. McGavran
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced
life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and
play and work every day some.
?Robert Fulghum
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
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder
is not the balance of justice. Blood
does not wipe out dishonor,
nor violence indicate possession.
?Julia Ward Howe
Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes
exactly the right measure of himself and
holds a just balance between what
he can acquire and what he can use.
?Peter Latham
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
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
?Fran Lebowitz
Education, then, beyond all other devices
of human origin, is the great equalizer of
the conditions of men --
the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
?Horace Mann
There are men who can write poetry, and
there are men who can read balance sheets.
The men who can read
balance sheets cannot write.
?Henry R. Luce
What I dream of is an art of balance,
of purity and serenity devoid of
troubling or depressing subject matter.
?Henri Matisse
Happiness is not a matter
of intensity but of balance and order
and rhythm and harmony.
?Thomas Merton
I always try to balance the light
with the heavy -- a few tears
of human spirit in with
the sequins and the fringes.
?Bette Midler
Problems arise in that one has to find
a balance between what people need from
you and what you need for yourself.
?Jessye Norman
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains
and the changes for women which have
occurred in my lifetime, there is still room
to advance and to promote correction of
the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
?Sandra Day O'Connor
Man always travels along precipices. His
truest obligation is to keep his balance.
?Pope John Paul II
My private measure of success is daily. If this
were to be the last day of my life would I be
content with it? To live in a harmonious balance
of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
?Jane Rule
I look forward to these confrontations with
the press to kind of balance up the nice and
pleasant things that come to me as president.
?Jimmy Carter
Unfortunately, the balance of nature
decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is
paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
?Peter Ustinov
If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be
always an argument for war, the pretext for war will
never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
?John Bright
In Africa people learn to serve each other.
They live on credit balances of little favors
that they give and may,
one day, ask to have returned.
?Beryl Markham
Something in human nature causes us
to start slacking off at our moment of greatest
accomplishment. As you become successful, you
will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose
your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
?H. Ross Perot
