Quotes About Balance

the Western church has often stressed its personal relationship with God at the expense of its corporate relationship to Him. This

Relationships were never equivalent: that was why it was so hard to find permanent ones. When two people depended on each other, they each had their own reasons. Sometimes the reasons balanced each other out temporarily, and the two of you were suspended gently in air. Then inevitably, one side came crashing down.

Without women, there would be perpetual war and chaos. With them, there was only chaos.

Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do.

Sometimes I think being a cop is less dangerous than being married.

You can't drink all day unless you start in the morning.

I only drink with other people, or when I'm alone.

I'm not pushy, but Major Johnson was in command now, so I had to strike the right balance between romance and sex.

Lest you think we are utterly depraved, I want you to know that we are both registered Republicans and members of the Episcopal Church, and attend regularly except during the Boating Season

if you knock down every law in pursuit of the devil, then the laws are gone when the devil turns on you.

many people think excitement is happiness', actually 'when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Machiavelli asks "whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?" He answers that "one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there was nothing whatever good about it. This position is absurd.

the dichotomy between network and hierarchy is an ancient idea.

those who live by the tort, die by the tort.

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil as a good.

For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.

For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

A prince who is free to do as he pleases is unreasonable, and a people that is free to do as it pleases is not wise. If we consider princes restricted by laws and a people bound by laws, we will find greater qualities in the people than in the princes.

A Prince should esteem the great, but must not make himself odious to the people.

Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

Time sweeps everything along and can bring good as well as evil, evil as well as good.

From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.