Weighed In The Balance Quotes

#1. In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!

Leonard Ravenhill

#3. In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

Normandi Ellis

#4. People under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Franz Kafka

#5. Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

Oscar Wilde

#7. My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

Hannibal Buress

#8. With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

S.J. Watson

#9. Poor children, typhoons (the turbulent waters) washed their house collapsed, their homelessness, family members dead. Do not you want to help them? If you want to help them, please donate the money to typhoon Haiyan

Yanis Yingnan JI

#10. We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

Garry Kasparov

#12. Never ask an author for a free copy

Moonish Sood

#13. I don't know ... I think I'm quite extreme ... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character ... otherwise I can't act ... In my private life it's the same ... I think.

Doona Bae

#14. The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

George Orwell

#15. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

#16. Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures lost, it may seem hard and threatening. But when the cross is weighed in the balances with the glorious treasures to be had through it, even the cross seems sweet.

Walter J Chantry

#17. And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

Lajos Kossuth

#18. Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

Caroline Knapp