Quotes About Balance

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin.

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.

And there's such a thing as being oversperitial; we must have something beside Gospel i' this world. Look at the canals, an' th' aqueduc's, an' th' coal-pit engines, and Arkwright's mills there at Cromford; a man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things, I reckon. But t' hear some o' them preachers, you'd think as a man must be doing nothing all's life but shutting's eyes and looking what's agoing on inside him.

I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too.

Apparently the mingled thread in the web of their life was so curiously twisted together that there could be no joy without a sorrow coming close upon it.

Un'intelligenza perfettamente sana è sempre un po' spaesata in questo pazzo mondo.

Sometimes it upset her gravity.

There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.

I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time, because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs. I don't party. I stay at home and watch the river flow.

All the world's a birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

There's no point in being only the richest person in the graveyard. We must also enjoy ourselves along the way.

Rewards and punishments are moral acts; giving someone an appropriate reward or punishment balances the moral books.

Given the central position that the Morality of Reward and Punishment has in the conservative moral system, it is no surprise that conservatives in most cases prefer retribution over restitution as a form of justice, as a way of balancing the moral books. It is therefore no surprise that conservatives are in favor of the death penalty. It is a form of retribution, a life for a life. Liberals

For example, from 1968 to 1992 (with the exception of the Carter presidency), the voters selected a fairly conservative president and a fairly liberal Congress, creating what might be seen as a Strict Father executive and a Nurturant Mother Congress, thus reproducing a classic family model in the government, with strictness at the top and caring right below. Thus

Remember that there is no ideology of the moderate—no set of views held by all moderates.

We can be mothers and have careers. We can finish our education with children in tow. Is it a challenge? Yep. But women are made for challenges. We are strong enough to handle the challenges presented to us. It's what we were made to do.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.