Balance Quotes - page 4

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. (Ken Kesey)
Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just need that balance to feel sane myself - you know? View quote
Miranda July
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated. View quote
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. View quote
James Baldwin
Misogyny... is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. View quote
Joss Whedon
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. View quote
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse. View quote
Jack Vance
What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men. View quote
Jack Vance
The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. (Irving Babbitt)
Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
One must strike the right balance between speed and quality. View quote
Clare Short
I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind. View quote
Ted Nugent
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. View quote
Thomas Merton
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
No system of balance functions automatically. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scales If the price is right, there's time for more appeals The strings are pulled, the switch is stayed The finest lawyers fees are paid And a rich man never died upon the chair. View quote
Phil Ochs
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand. View quote
Bob Dylan
I've alway known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind. (Henri Bergson)
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history . View quote
John Zerzan
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. View quote
Vitruvius
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. View quote
Warren Buffett