Balance The Quotes

#1. It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator who shot some stuff and I'm like, you are right next to me, why don't we do it together.

George Tillman Jr.

#2. There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.

David Maraniss

#3. Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

Victoria Aveyard

#4. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Tom Lehman

#5. The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.

Paul Hawken

#6. Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies.

Jesse Petersen

#7. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

Scarlett Johansson

#8. Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

Greg Graffin

#9. Warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said,

Marya Hornbacher

#10. We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Janet Fitch

#11. Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Victoria Osteen

#12. I have to balance the scales and there's a lot weighing in against me.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism ... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

Nia Long

#15. So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.

Robert C. Solomon

#16. There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, and Tod's has done that.

Diego Della Valle

#17. What is essential to the condition of plurality is this fine balance between similarity and dissimilarity among the partners of the exchange.

Rafael A. Calvo

#18. And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to fall in love was to be caught, to be saved ...

Kate Morton

#19. When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Gina Greenlee

#20. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!

Rick Yancey

#21. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.

Nikki Rowe

#22. I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies - but I don't use that kind of language in public.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#23. What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

Wilbur Mills

#24. Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

Stefan Emunds

#25. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#26. By opening blockages in the energy pathways and reawakening our innate ability to sense energy flow, we can recover our health and natural balance. When we develop sensitivity to ki, we will be able to reach our body's potential.

Ilchi Lee

#27. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.

Emily St. John Mandel

#28. An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support. But the Green Lama had held more difficult positions, according to the Yoga, for hours.

Kendell Foster Crossen

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

Aleister Crowley

#30. Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

Christina Sunley

#31. Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds ...

Paula Gunn Allen

#32. The essence of health is inner balance.

Andrew Weil

#33. His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.

Patricia Briggs

#34. The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

Jack Coleman

#35. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#36. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#37. We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.

Anthony Liccione

#38. I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

Kenny Chesney

#39. My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

Jewel

#40. The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.

Nikolas Lee

#41. Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.

Cynthia Howard

#42. It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

Ted Cruz

#43. Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

Deepak Chopra

#44. Effective foreign policy has always involved the use of both sticks and carrots, and finding the right balance between the two is more art than science.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#45. The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

Ana Ortiz

#46. So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

Charlie Hunnam

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

Frank Herbert

#48. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

Salle Merrill Redfield

#49. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.

Carlos Wallace

#50. You can use power for good or bad, for control or freedom. You grew up watching your dad abuse it one way and it made you take the opposite direction. That's what we all think. Everything's about balance. That's what sustains life. Maybe your role is to keep your dad in check?

Katie Kacvinsky

#51. It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.

Theresa May

#52. Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

Robin Sharma

#53. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Kate Hudson

#54. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

Tony Abbott

#55. In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

Sherilyn Fenn

#56. Each day is a journey. We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other. You only discover balance in your life when you learn to trust the flow of this ancient rhythm.

John O'Donohue

#57. The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things ...

James A. Murphy

#58. So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

David Suzuki

#59. I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Juan Cole

#60. For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.

Herbert Stein

#61. I balance you
on the end of my pen.
Teetering between love
and letting go.

Jessica Kristie

#62. It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.

Shirley Manson

#63. There are days that I get neurotic with the violin. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced.

Joshua Bell

#64. I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Helen Reddy

#65. Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

Jeffrey Kluger

#66. Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.

Rickson Gracie

#67. Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride.
Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.
Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

Blaise Pascal

#68. You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.

Guo Guangchang

#69. Such are the laws of nature and balance. An if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.

Dan Brown

#70. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

Adam Smith

#71. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Myles Munroe

#72. A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.

W.E. Woodward

#73. I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.

Elizabeth May

#74. The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.

Ramon Magsaysay

#75. Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.

Trita Parsi

#76. We developed a philosophical credo and applied it consistently. We accept that morality, power, and consensus are the underpinnings for any society and work to maintain all three in balance. Trust and mutual respect are, in a way, the mortar that hold the other three together.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#77. I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Jenna Fischer

#78. The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#79. New science reveals that exercise positively influences the gut's balance of bacteria to favor colonies that prevent weight gain.

David Perlmutter

#80. The balance to life is kale cakes and cupcakes

Joe

#81. The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive.

Michael Crichton

#82. Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

Brian Skerry

#83. Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty.

Robert Muller

#84. When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

Bertrand Russell

#85. The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

Jen Lancaster

#86. For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

John Frusciante

#87. What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ...

Rohinton Mistry

#88. Had God,then,peopled the whole universe with our kind?Did he perhaps in very truth make us in his image?It was incredible.To ask such questions proved that I had lost mental balance.

Olaf Stapledon

#89. A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Alan Light

#90. Every day, I have something that is so full of nutrition and so full of foods that give you life, rather than take them away, that it makes me feel amazing and really good inside. It balances my blood sugar, balances out all of the things that I need, the nutrition that I need to get into my body.

Vani Hari

#91. The balance of this world is not upset by accident. It is not upset by those who blunder accidentally into wrong. Evil comes when those who know better, who have seen the pain they cause, nevertheless cause more pain.

Michael Grant

#92. If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#93. the moment he'd seen that female he'd forgotten his own name, most of his English vocabulary, and seventy-five percent of his sense of balance.
Instant. Cosmic. Attraction.

-Trez's thoughts about Selena

J.R. Ward

#94. No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Dave Eggers

#95. I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

Vincent Cassel

#96. That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question.

Mike Huckabee

#97. He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

Lois Lowry

#98. My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#99. To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Glenda Jackson

#100. The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.

Diana Lanham