Counterbalanced Quotes

#1. The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

Joseph Brodsky

#2. Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

Robert Carlyle

#3. Why do you smile all the time?" he said. "Because I am looking at you," she said

Tove Jansson

#4. You tried to barter with the devil himself for me, you crazy woman. Bloody hell, doona you ever risk your life for mine. Ever! Do you hear me?

Karen Marie Moning

#5. People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Ruth Rendell

#6. It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Alan Greenspan

#7. Gran, I'm only gonna ask this once. Please don't have sex talks with me, ok? Especially with Maggie in the room. Do you think we could do that?

Shelly Crane

#8. As a parent, it has been instructive to discover that the deep, instinctive love I feel for my own child is counterbalanced by the antipathy I feel towards other people's children.

Andy Miller

#9. Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Arnold J. Toynbee

#11. There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives.

William Thomas Councilman

#12. Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Samuel Johnson

#13. I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.

Wolfgang Pauli

#14. I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.

Troye Sivan

#15. I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Iris Johansen

#16. Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

Harry S. Truman

#17. love-based thought that focuses on the possibilities and directs the situation toward a happy outcome.

Doreen Virtue

#18. I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

May Sarton

#19. Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.

Amelie Nothomb

#20. this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival.

Erich Fromm

#21. I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

Minoru Yamasaki

#22. Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.

Andrew Weil

#23. All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

John C. Maxwell

#24. I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.
Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now.

Claire North

#25. Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused ... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences ... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Taryn Simon

#26. Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

Nikos Kazantzakis