Counterbalancing Quotes

#1. Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Jimmy Carter

#2. We were wolves once / Wild and wary / Then we noticed you had sofas

Francesco Marciuliano

#3. You're very welcome, gorgeous. See, Kaz? That's how the civilized folk do.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman

Seneca.

#5. So I could see that Harlow was fundamentally untrustworthy. Simultaneously, she seemed like someone with whom I could be my true self. I had no intention of doing so and, with and equal and counterbalancing intensity, a great longing for it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#6. Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Woody Allen

#7. I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

James Vincent McMorrow

#8. Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Xun Zi

#9. Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected ... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

John Naisbitt

#10. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Charles De Lint

#11. Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#12. She was shocked by how dirty Florence was.

Christobel Kent

#13. In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

John Gay

#14. Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Mario Puzo

#15. Make your physical surroundings as beautiful as possible.

Alexandra Stoddard

#16. What's important is to remain human.

Katerina Gogou

#17. A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

David Hume

#18. It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Voltaire