Delicately Balanced Quotes

#1. This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

Kenneth Clark

#2. The superficial and the slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization.

Peter De Vries

#3. Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

M.F.K. Fisher

#4. The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

William Lyon Phelps

#5. My world was delicately balanced, but the scales never hung even. When something improved, something else had to crumble.

Rebecca Donovan

#6. The creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

Grace S. Richmond

#7. Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist,
Western European civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

#8. The relation of loving contains exactly those ordered pairs such that d loves e. This relation is presumably not reflexive on the set of all persons: some people do not love themselves. Much grief is caused by the fact that this relation is not symmetric....

Volker Halbach

#9. not drive a stick shift worth a damn.

Linda B. Myers

#10. Hey, Kami. I was wondering if I could get a dance with the best-looking girl in the room."
"Sure," Kami said. "Go ask Angela. Take your life in your hands. I'll miss you and all, but I'm going to give her an alibi for the murder, because that's what best friends do.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#11. Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

Christopher Morley

#12. Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Sathya Sai Baba