Balance Quotes

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.

My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try to balance it out in my head.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

The church has given me balance.

I've become much more spiritual and use a lot of energy to try and keep the balance.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

I'm a Gemini and Lucas Goodman is a Leo, so we definitely wanted some duality. We definitely balance each other out in a lot of ways, but we're also very different.

There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.

When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

Getting even throws everything out of balance.

Our seniors shouldn't have to check their stock balance before they can get knee surgery.

Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.

There's probably a balance between. I believe you have to know Christ. But I think that if you know Christ, if you're a believer in God, you're going to have some good works.

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

We need to balance the budget and force Washington to stop spending more than it takes in.

He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy. He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of the ball. I just like watching him hit.

I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance sheet, which shows assets and liability. That is also true for a country.

I do have a busy work life. So I would say that the positive atmosphere at home combined with the support I receive from my family and loved ones is really what helps me balance it all.

Food is not the problem. It's what we do with food that becomes the problem. That's why we need to learn to keep everything in our lives - especially our eating - in proper balance.

Releasing the emotional energy and focusing on acceptance dissipates anger and restores balance.

I think at the end of the day you have to find a balance with what's really important.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.