Counterbalances Quotes

#1. Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.

Blaise Pascal

#3. Here the intellectual cynicism of the Jew almost counterbalances his social unpleasantness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

William Hazlitt

#5. Never try to explain a 5-by-7 vision to someone with a 3-by-5 experience. It rarely works out the way you'd like it to.

LC Johnson

#6. A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

Laura Bush

#7. Children do the best they can, with the resources they have!

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#8. When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

Tracy Austin

#9. I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Francis Bacon

#10. How wonderful he smelled all sleep warm first thing in the morning. But I wanted more from him than just that. I wanted to hear his voice, hear him talk about everything and anything.

Kylie Scott

#11. France will take on a militant tone, leaving its beautiful cultural tower to chase power after all these years.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#12. Our people need Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite. As leader it is my continued commitment to dedicate our party's activity to that goal.

Wes Streeting

#13. But her silence had played on the dark, vulnerable part of him, deep in his soul.

Aislinn Kearns

#14. I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

Noah Baumbach

#15. I have choices," I insisted, refusing to break eye contact. "We both do. I may have to make mine carefully, and make a few compromises along the way, but I have a choice. I choose you.

Rachel Vincent

#16. Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

Lance Armstrong

#17. People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.

Stefan Heym

#18. Briar thrust a crystal cup with a silver spoon into Apple's hands. "Whipped air. Try it. Totally invisible and totally good." Apple dipped the spoon into the empty cup and touched it to her tongue. The nothingness tasted like chocolate-raspberry swirl. "Mm, this is amazing.

Shannon Hale