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Quotes About Balance

If ye can stand up, you're not drunk.
~ Diana Gabaldon
That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.
~ Diana Gabaldon
We stood wrapped in each other's arms, taking comfort from our family below, yearning for the others we might never see again, at once at home and homeless, balanced on a knife edge of danger and uncertainty. But together.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous.
~ Diana Gabaldon
well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
~ Diana Gabaldon
if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Money is a good bridle, but a weak rein.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It doesna matter how many things ye do on a farm, there's always more than ye can do. A wonder the place doesna rise up about my ears and swallow me, like Jonah and the whale.
~ Diana Gabaldon
bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails
~ Diana Gabaldon
As for sweeping the floor, polishing the windows, dusting, and general drudgery of that sort Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
~ Diana Gabaldon
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
I think there are times for men of peace—and a time for men of blood, as well.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous." We
~ Diana Gabaldon
Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness.
~ Diana Gabaldon
reason returned, and I calmed
~ Diana Gabaldon
The sacrifice," she said, suddenly impatient. "It gives ye a greater range. And at least a bit of control, so ye have some notion how far ye're going. How did ye get to and fro three times, without blood?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Adaletle zorbal?k aras?nda çok ince bir çizgi var.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I SLEPT THE sleep of the gardener, physical exhaustion leavened by tranquility
~ Diana Gabaldon
The company of plants is always soothing, and after the incessant—well, you couldn't call it sociability, exactly, but at least the incessant presence of people requiring to be conversed with, directed, hectored, scolded, conferred with, persuaded, lied to—that I had experienced over the last few days
~ Diana Gabaldon
If life was fair, then what?
~ Diana Gabaldon
You have to keep time aside for life, which I haven't done enough over the past couple years.
~ Stacey Dooley
I'm married. I have a daughter, so I put aside time in the day to spend with them.
~ Nathan Blecharczyk
In the back of your mind there's always these contractual things you have to deal with. You try to put that aside when it comes to training and playing.
~ Beauden Barrett