Best 1928 quotes in «balance quotes» category

As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.

As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But it will also need additional revenues. Should the government not receive them, we will all get punished with higher interest rates.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Australia seems to strike a balance between big and small. It's big enough to have that diversity, but not so big that it disintegrates into something that is not connected.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.

"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.

Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.

Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

Balance is overrated.

Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.