Quotes About Balance

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

I like to have performances where I don't get too beat up and don't take too much punishment. I'm OK doing three or four times a year. That's fine by me.

Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments need to fit their crimes.

If you go too small, you can't get the performance you need out of the small little parts. And if you go too big, the puppet gets difficult to move, because it's too heavy, and there's too much material, and it becomes this exercise in just moving these massive parts around. So there is a natural scale that makes sense for stop-motion.

We have a new puppy and that's enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

I'm an attorney when I'm not writing comics, and have been for years. That's a side of my life I don't always associate with pure creativity, but it's all worked out nicely.

We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.

I would love to live in a world that is purely equal, where everyone has equal opportunities in every way. But that is not reality.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.