Top 81 Balfour's Quotes
#1. The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.
Robert Fisk
#2. I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
Arthur Balfour
#3. There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.
Arthur Balfour
#4. Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.
Eric Balfour
#5. I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.
Eric Balfour
#7. The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
Eric Balfour
#8. Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.
Arthur Balfour
#9. His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.
Arthur Balfour
#10. Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
Arthur Balfour
#11. I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.
Arthur Balfour
#12. I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.
Eric Balfour
#13. Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.
Arthur Balfour
#15. If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.
Eric Balfour
#17. I've had the experience of seeing what makes life easier for an actor and for the crew, and what makes it feel bogged down and challenging. We're all really fortunate that we get to make our living as artists.
Eric Balfour
#18. The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
Arthur Balfour
#19. Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
Arthur James Balfour
#20. If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.
Winston Churchill
#21. It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act ...
Balfour Stewart
#22. I think 'Game Of Thrones' has been genius, and I really don't want it to end. Every episode is huge. It's totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in.
Eric Balfour
#23. I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.
Eric Balfour
#26. Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.
Arthur Balfour
#27. Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
Clara Lucas Balfour
#28. Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.
Arthur Balfour
#29. Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.
Eric Balfour
#30. 'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.
Eric Balfour
#31. It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
Arthur Balfour
#32. No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
Arthur Balfour
#33. He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.
Arthur Balfour
#34. Willey Ley (Spaceflight advocate, German-American
Seth Balfour
#35. The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.
Eric Balfour
#36. My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
Eric Balfour
#37. I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
Eric Balfour
#38. Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.
Eric Balfour
#40. It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur Balfour
#41. Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
Arthur Balfour
#42. By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.
Eric Balfour
#43. As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately
Barbara W. Tuchman
#44. As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.
Eric Balfour
#45. A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.
Eric Balfour
#46. Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.
Arthur Balfour
#47. I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.
Eric Balfour
#48. A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour.
Eleanor Catton
#49. The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.
Eric Balfour
#50. The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Arthur Balfour
#51. The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.
Francis Maitland Balfour
#52. This isn't a duality. I'm not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn't a lever inside me that determines which of me you're talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn't change. It's still a knife.
Wildbow
#53. The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
Arthur Balfour
#54. Round here, everybody's always talking about home,' said Balfour. 'Can't help but think that the pleasure's in the missing.
Eleanor Catton
#55. I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur Balfour
#56. As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.
Eric Balfour
#57. I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.
Eric Balfour
#58. As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.
Eric Balfour
#59. Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?
Arthur Balfour
#60. Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
Arthur Balfour
#61. One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.
Eric Balfour
#63. Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
Arthur Balfour
#64. I'd love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I'm sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there's a lot of competition in our business.
Eric Balfour
#65. To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
Eric Balfour
#66. As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.
Eric Balfour
#67. I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.
Arthur Balfour
#68. Love is a word we use for the desire to fornicate so that we seem more refined than farm animals." ~Lucian Balfour
Suzanne Enoch
#69. Brandeis thought that the British should allow more Jews into Palestine. It was not only their obligation under the Balfour Declaration; it was the only way Jews could be saved from Hitler. When
Lewis J. Paper
#70. Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.
Eric Balfour
#72. At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.
Eric Balfour
#73. Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
Arthur Balfour
#74. The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false.
Eric Balfour
#75. I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
Arthur Balfour
#76. As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.
Eric Balfour
#77. Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
Arthur Balfour
#78. This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#79. Each item of business was described in the expansive, flourishing script that Balfour associated in his mind, with a man who could afford to waste his ink on curlicues.
Eleanor Catton
#80. I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference
Arthur Balfour
#81. He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Arthur Balfour
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